protection on IoMega ZIP drives

This is in regard to the now popular ZIP disks, the removable 100MB
cartridge for PC's/MAC's.

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?


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For the PC you might be able to hack SecureDrive to handle SyQuest
and ZIP drives.  I recall R.Brown's interrupt lists showed that the
drivers set up different subfunctions for Int 13h (low-level disk ops).

It's only speculation though. Has anyone done this?

On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Mutant Rob wrote:

> For the PC you might be able to hack SecureDrive to handle SyQuest
> and ZIP drives.  I recall R.Brown's interrupt lists showed that the
> drivers set up different subfunctions for Int 13h (low-level disk ops).

Has anyone tried SFS?  It should work on the zip drive, though I've not 
tried it (yet)...
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Joseph L. Moll wrote:
| 
| 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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On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Joseph L. Moll wrote:

> This is in regard to the now popular ZIP disks, the removable 100MB
> cartridge for PC's/MAC's.
> 
> 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?

Not much.

Use CryptDisk, shareware from Mr. W. Price.

I believe the current version is 1.1.3
Much more secure.

> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> ---
> Joseph (Joe) L. Moll  mailto:jmoll@acquion.com
> Network/Communications Engineering
> http://www.acquion.com  phone:864-281-4108  fax:864-281-4576
> Acquion, Inc.  Greenville, SC  USA -- Specialists in Electronic Commerce
> 
> 

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