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Re: Encryption and Backups

To: John Pettitt <[email protected]>, Brian Davis <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Encryption and Backups
From: Alan Olsen <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1996 21:36:56 -0800
Cc: [email protected]
Sender: [email protected]

At 08:33 PM 2/4/96 -0800, John Pettitt wrote:
>
>On Sun, 4 Feb 1996, Alan Olsen wrote:
>
>> Something that I have not seen addressed is the need for strong encryption
>> in backup software.

>CP Backup (part of PC Tools for Central Point aka Symantec) has DES. As to
>how good the implementation is: I have no idea.

I have a copy, but I have not yet verified the key sizes.  It is on my list
of projects.  (My current project is for determining if an app is accessing
your PGP files under Win95.  I may be stuck for a bit though...  Looks like
I might need the DDK to compile it.)
Alan Olsen -- [email protected] -- Contract Web Design & Instruction
        `finger -l [email protected]` for PGP 2.6.2 key 
                http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ 
         Is the operating system half NT or half full?

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