Jonathon Fletcher wrote: | | There's a compression/archiving package on the Mac call Stuffit. It | comes in the usual Lite (get free then register) and Deluxe (money first, | product later) flavours. It offers, amongst it's options, an encryption | option on a 'per archive entry'. This means you can have an archive with a | mix of encrypted and unencrypted files and folders, all in the same | archive. | | Question is - does anyone know anything about the strength or | trustability of the encryption algorithm used ? It's freely exportable | from the US (or so I thought) so it can't be DES. Is it (down) on a level | with the MS Word or Wordperfect ciphers, or is it a little better ? How | far should I trust it ? Its a 40 bit watered down version of DES. Stuffit 2 included DES, so Aladdin is aware of strong crypto, but the cost of shipping two versions was too high. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume