From: Deranged Mutant <wlkngowl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 01:31:33 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Encryption and Backups
Message-ID: <199602111650.LAA15770@bb.hks.net>
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GNU-Zip (GZip) format has encryption defined, but (AFAIK) not yet 
implemented.  The probably won't use the vile PKZip method... and they 
probably will implement an unpatented method, if ever.

Mark C. Henderson wrote:
 > GNU tar is not the commercial backup solution many folks will be
> looking for, but it works, and has nice built-in hooks which are
> intended to call a compression program.
> 
> One can also use these options to call an encryption program, as long
> as the encryption program takes stdin as input, stdout as output,
> encrypts by default, and decrypts when given the -d option.
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