NODE cbe50f9cRe: Encrypting ZIP disks
Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:21:13 -0800 (PST)
At 11:40 AM 1/25/97 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
>
>Paul Kocher announced that he has cracked it, and can recover data
>quickly. He is not publishing details of the break.
Why?
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NODE 0616dcf3Re: Encrypting ZIP disks
Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>Sun, 26 Jan 1997 08:35:45 -0800 (PST)
Lucky Green wrote:
| At 11:40 AM 1/25/97 -0500, Adam Shostack wrote:
| >
| >Paul Kocher announced that he has cracked it, and can recover data
| >quickly. He is not publishing details of the break.
|
| Why?
Probably to make money. Paul does do this for a living. Even
if he hasn't cracked it, the ZIP protection mechanism is propreitary
and exportable.
Adam
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