protection on IoMega ZIP drives
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? Best Regards, --- Joseph (Joe) L. Moll mailto:jmoll@acquion.com Network/Communications Engineering http://www.acquion.com phone:864-281-4108 fax:864-281-4576 Acquion, Inc. Greenville, SC USA -- Specialists in Electronic Commerce
For the PC you might be able to hack SecureDrive to handle SyQuest and ZIP drives. I recall R.Brown's interrupt lists showed that the drivers set up different subfunctions for Int 13h (low-level disk ops). It's only speculation though. Has anyone done this?
On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Mutant Rob wrote:
For the PC you might be able to hack SecureDrive to handle SyQuest and ZIP drives. I recall R.Brown's interrupt lists showed that the drivers set up different subfunctions for Int 13h (low-level disk ops).
Has anyone tried SFS? It should work on the zip drive, though I've not tried it (yet)... -- Ed Carp, N7EKG Ed.Carp@linux.org, ecarp@netcom.com 214/993-3935 voicemail/digital pager 800/558-3408 SkyPager Finger ecarp@netcom.com for PGP 2.5 public key an88744@anon.penet.fi "Past the wounds of childhood, past the fallen dreams and the broken families, through the hurt and the loss and the agony only the night ever hears, is a waiting soul. Patient, permanent, abundant, it opens its infinite heart and asks only one thing of you ... 'Remember who it is you really are.'" -- "Losing Your Mind", Karen Alexander and Rick Boyes The mark of a good conspiracy theory is its untestability. -- Andrew Spring
On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Joseph L. Moll wrote:
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?
Not much. Use CryptDisk, shareware from Mr. W. Price. I believe the current version is 1.1.3 Much more secure.
Best Regards, --- Joseph (Joe) L. Moll mailto:jmoll@acquion.com Network/Communications Engineering http://www.acquion.com phone:864-281-4108 fax:864-281-4576 Acquion, Inc. Greenville, SC USA -- Specialists in Electronic Commerce
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Joseph L. Moll wrote: | | 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? Its weak software encryption. Paul Kocher announced he had cracked it in Sept/Oct, but is not distributing the crack program. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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