From: Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 20:19:01 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Encrypting ZIP disks
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"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

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