Re: Encrypting ZIP disks
Paul Kocher announced that he has cracked it, and can recover data quickly. He is not publishing details of the break. Adam Jeremiah A Blatz wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. | "David E. Smith" <dsmith@prairienet.org> writes: | > 7. Secure sensitive files. | > To keep sensitive or confidential information safe, store it | > on a Zip disk and use your Zip Tools software to assign a | > password that must be used in order to read from or write to | > the disk. At work, you can protect sensitive information | > such as personnel files, company directories, and product | > plans and designs. At home, you can secure personal | > information such as tax records, budgets, and computerized | > checkbooks. | | FWIW (not much), Iomega claims that it can't recover the data on a | password-protected disk. However, they do export those things, so I | doubt it's strong. | | Jer | | "standing on top of the world/ never knew how you never could/ never knew | why you never could live/ innocent life that everyone did" -Wormhole -- End of PGP signed section. -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume
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Adam Shostack