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Will Mike Ingle's name be a household word like "Buttafuoco"?
- To: 'Cypherpunks List' <[email protected]>
- Subject: Will Mike Ingle's name be a household word like "Buttafuoco"?
- From: James Still <[email protected]>
- Date: Fri, 03 Dec 93 16:15:00 PST
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Mike Ingle comments on his recently released "Secure
Drive" program:
>What's the BBS? If you want to, put up a notice or something.
[...]
>encrypt the BBS itself, and set up a relay to power it down
>if an alarm in your house goes off. Then you are raid-proof.
In case someone isn't familiar with Mike's excellent program,
it does for hard drives, what PGP does for messages. With
Secure Drive (ver 1.0) you can set up a partition on your hard
drive encrypt it (SecDrv uses the IDEA cipher for data and RSA
for your pass phrase just like PGP) and access the encrypted
drive from a TSR in your C drive.
In my opinion, this is the best example yet since PGP of
"cypherpunks writing code" because of the implications that
this program has on privacy. (I'm using it to keep a personal
space for my tax records, private correspondence, PGP dir, etc.),
but Mike's suggestion for encrypting an entire BBS itself
is a good point. What if *every* sysop encrypted their BBS
with Secure Drive?
His program is DOS freeware and available on the Hieroglyphic
Voodoo Machine BBS at +1.303.443.2457 (V.32bis) as SECDRV10.ZIP.
It is also available on soda.berkeley.edu I'm sure although I
haven't looked there myself.
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