1996-03-23 - Re: protection on IoMega ZIP drives

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: jmoll@acquion.com (Joseph L. Moll)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-03-23 10:47:10 UTC
Raw Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 18:47:10 +0800

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 18:47:10 +0800
To: jmoll@acquion.com (Joseph L. Moll)
Subject: Re: protection on IoMega ZIP drives
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Joseph L. Moll wrote:
| 
| Anyone have any idea how secure the ZIP disk is once it is "protected?"  I
| know that the disk will refuse to be mounted without the passkey, but what
| is really happening here?

	Its weak software encryption.  Paul Kocher announced he had
cracked it in Sept/Oct, but is not distributing the crack program.

Adam



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