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Re: Encrypting ZIP disks

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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