From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 11:08:34 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Encryption and Backups
Message-ID: <199602090222.PAA01997@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Death rays from Mars made jpp@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.