From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 08:43:58 -0800 (PST)
To: jer+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremiah A Blatz)
Subject: Re: Encrypting ZIP disks
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Paul Kocher announced that he has cracked it, and can recover data
quickly.  He is not publishing details of the break.

Adam


Jeremiah A Blatz wrote:
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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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