[42217] in Cypherpunks
Re: Quick commercial package question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Wed Oct 25 00:10:05 1995
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: jonathon@doemail.sbi.com (Jonathon Fletcher)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 00:10:22 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.951025122602.8492M-100000@doe905f> from "Jonathon Fletcher" at Oct 25, 95 12:34:16 pm
Jonathon Fletcher wrote:
|
| There's a compression/archiving package on the Mac call Stuffit. It
| comes in the usual Lite (get free then register) and Deluxe (money first,
| product later) flavours. It offers, amongst it's options, an encryption
| option on a 'per archive entry'. This means you can have an archive with a
| mix of encrypted and unencrypted files and folders, all in the same
| archive.
|
| Question is - does anyone know anything about the strength or
| trustability of the encryption algorithm used ? It's freely exportable
| from the US (or so I thought) so it can't be DES. Is it (down) on a level
| with the MS Word or Wordperfect ciphers, or is it a little better ? How
| far should I trust it ?
Its a 40 bit watered down version of DES. Stuffit 2 included
DES, so Aladdin is aware of strong crypto, but the cost of shipping
two versions was too high.
Adam
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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