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Re: compression & passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 10 17:39:09 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:11:25 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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George McConnell wrote:
> does anyone know if any compression program that supports passwd protection?
>
> tar? cpio? zip?
pgp will encrypt and password protect any file, including a zip,tar or
cpio
archive.
So will the program crypt, but it is known to be very weak. You can
get these
from http://www.replay.com/redhat outside the US.
Or, you can get a free certificate from Verisign, etc. and mail the tar
archive
to yourself
with encryption turned on. Netscape does this well on any OS.
>
>
> i am aware a better solution would include RSA and DES encryption, but that
> is overkill for this particular need.
>
> thanks,
> george
>
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