[52490] in Cypherpunks
Re: protection on IoMega ZIP drives
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Mar 22 11:32:24 1996
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: jmoll@acquion.com (Joseph L. Moll)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 10:52:40 -0500 (EST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960322120637.006acd68@mail.acquion.com> from "Joseph L. Moll" at Mar 22, 96 07:06:37 am
Joseph L. Moll wrote:
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| 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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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
