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This is in regard to the now popular ZIP disks, the removable 100MB cartridge for PC's/MAC's.

Anyone have any idea how secure the ZIP disk is once it is "protected?" I know that the disk will refuse to be mounted without the passkey, but what is really happening here?

In my experience (on a Mac) the Zip doesn't get any slower once protected so I expect it is probably some mickeymouse bit that gets set somewhere, and the Iomega driver simply refuses to mount the disk. I don't think Linux would even blink before mounting the purportedly "protected" volume. If you're concerned about securing your carts, I recommend creating a CryptDisk file on the Mac disk. I don't use DOS/Windows, so I can't suggest anything for that, but I'm sure someone else on the list will jump in. Matt Blaze recently posted an announcement of a new release of his secure filesystem for unix to the list, which I believe also runs under Linux. Joseph Block <jpb@miamisci.org> "We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans ..." -- Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A) PGP 2048bit-Fingerprint: F8 A2 A5 15 56 42 9B 16 3F BD 57 0F 8A ED E3 21 No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session.