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- From: Osma.Ahvenlampi@hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
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- Subject: Re: encrypt directories?
- Date: 08 Jan 1996 00:36:16 +0200
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- In-reply-to: aalto@lyseo.otol.fi's message of 7 Jan 1996 13:00:42 GMT
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- In article <4cog5q$e28@pan.otol.fi> aalto@lyseo.otol.fi (Lauri Aalto) writes:
- >Use muFS (multiuser FileSystem). It gives you unix-like file permissions
- >for users, groups and others. When the files are protected nobody can
- >access them without your or root's password or removing the muFS with
- >HDToolBox (which should also be protected). It is not 100% secure, but
- >then again, there's no such thing as 100% security. At least it provides
- >security against any occassional bypassers and slows down serious
- >crackers.
-
- Uhhuh. I wouldn't have quite expected to hear this from you, Lauri.
-
- muFS slows down someone who wants to see the data just about 2 minutes
- 25 seconds. All it takes is HDToolBox and FastFileSystem on a floppy
- and two reboots.
-
- Compare that to IDEA encrypted data files, which will take about
- 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (actually, more than that, but I want to play
- this safe) years to decrypt using the fastest Amigas available. If you
- set the system up so that the password is not stored anywhere on the
- system, the only way for a cracker to gain access to the data is to
- see you type the password when you start the system.
-
- No, I don't think muFS can quite replace encrypted data.
-
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