[49243] in Cypherpunks
Re: Encryption and Backups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Olsen)
Mon Feb 5 00:39:54 1996
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 21:36:56 -0800
To: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>, Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
From: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 08:33 PM 2/4/96 -0800, John Pettitt wrote:
>
>On Sun, 4 Feb 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
>
>> Something that I have not seen addressed is the need for strong encryption
>> in backup software.
>CP Backup (part of PC Tools for Central Point aka Symantec) has DES. As to
>how good the implementation is: I have no idea.
I have a copy, but I have not yet verified the key sizes. It is on my list
of projects. (My current project is for determining if an app is accessing
your PGP files under Win95. I may be stuck for a bit though... Looks like
I might need the DDK to compile it.)
Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction
`finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key
http://www.teleport.com/~alano/
Is the operating system half NT or half full?
