[98737] in RedHat Linux List
Re: compression & passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Sharpe)
Tue Nov 10 13:45:09 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 09:00:59 -0800
From: Jeff Sharpe <jeff@sfg.com>
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George McConnell wrote:
>
> does anyone know if any compression program that supports passwd protection?
>
> tar? cpio? zip?
>
> i am aware a better solution would include RSA and DES encryption, but that
> is overkill for this particular need.
Hum... cpio (I think) does... or maybe this was a patch I saw
somewheres. Zip, I know, does (check the replay site). Not sure about
tar, doubt it though.
I use pgp with cpio/tar for compressed encrypted files.
J
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