From: edgar@highnrg.sbay.org (Edgar Swank)
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
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From: edgar@highnrg.sbay.org (Edgar Swank)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 95 11:26:52 PDT
To: Cypherpunks <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Subject: SecureDrive News - Win95, non-USA ftp sites
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I have received the following information about running SecureDrive
1.4 with Win95, thanks to Ed Stone,
This is what I sent to a person who asked how to use secdrive on
win95......
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>inserted text follows
Try this:
in your autoexec.bat file enter this, using your path to secdrive:
C:\your-path-to-secdrive\SECTSR
C:\your-path-to-secdrive\LOGIN your-encrypted-disk-letter: /S
C:\your-path-to-secdrive\login your-encrypted-disk-letter:
During normal win95 startup, you will be asked to enter your
passphrase. Now when 95 come up, the tsr is running, your passphrase
has been entered, and everything operates as if the disk is not
encrypted. EXCEPT.... the tsr you have loaded (sectsr) makes windows
load real-mode drivers for the disk, instead of protected mode
drivers. This will make disk access somewhat slower, but not a big
deal. When you startup win95 and you don't need to use secdrive,
just hit enter when the boot process asks for your passphrase, and
it will behave as if you entered a "wrong passphrase" and that drive
will not be visible to win95, and protected mode drivers will
load...
Hope this helps.
In particular that the normal drivers will load even with sectsr
resident if the correct passphrase isn't entered is new and valuable
information.
I have also just learned that SecureDrive 1.4 is now available on some
non-USA (and so not export-controlled) ftp sites,
ftp://utopia.hacktic.nl/pub/disk/secdr14.zip
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/misc/secdr14.zip
I have verified that the hacktic file is an exact copy of the zip I
released in the USA.
Edgar W. Swank <edgar@HighNRG.sbay.org>
SecureDrive Co-author
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