Encryption and Backups
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Thu Feb 8 19:08:34 PST 1996
Death rays from Mars made jpp at software.net (John Pettitt) write:
>CP Backup (part of PC Tools for Central Point aka Symantec) has DES. As to
>how good the implementation is: I have no idea.
It's slightly more secure than the widespread double rot-13 encryption. PC
Tools uses 2-round DES (or at least it did the last time I looked). There's
some criticism of this in the SFS docs somewhere.
Peter.
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