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Re: Encryption and Backups



Death rays from Mars made [email protected] (John Pettitt) write:

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

It's slightly more secure than the widespread double rot-13 encryption.  PC
Tools uses 2-round DES (or at least it did the last time I looked).  There's 
some criticism of this in the SFS docs somewhere.

Peter.