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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)
Message Hash: 4dbd5d4a8c31b9ed06e52cc35a4be679e03430571e4360a63575a4aaeccf58a5
Message ID: <199603221552.KAA16944@homeport.org>
Reply To: <2.2.32.19960322120637.006acd68@mail.acquion.com>
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
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960322120637.006acd68@mail.acquion.com>
Message-ID: <199603221552.KAA16944@homeport.org>
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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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