[49577] in Cypherpunks
Re: Encryption and Backups
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz)
Thu Feb 8 21:29:33 1996
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 15:22:00 +1300 (NZDT)
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Death rays from Mars made jpp@software.net (John Pettitt) write:
>CP Backup (part of PC Tools for Central Point aka Symantec) has DES. As to
>how good the implementation is: I have no idea.
It's slightly more secure than the widespread double rot-13 encryption. PC
Tools uses 2-round DES (or at least it did the last time I looked). There's
some criticism of this in the SFS docs somewhere.
Peter.
