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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
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- Subject: Re: pkz204c.exe is out, finally ...
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 04:44:59 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:
-
- >kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
- >>Oooh... I finally got hold of an authentic copy of pkzip/unzip 2.04c ...
- >[...]
- >>-Password Encryption
- >>
- >> Sensitive data files can be scrambled with password protection.
- >> The security of this feature has been significantly improved in
- >> PKZIP/PKUNZIP 2.04c.
-
- And Keith Petersen promptly interjects:
-
- >Due to the restrictions on the exporting of encryption technology, this
- >program cannot be legally offered by any FTP site in the USA or Canada
- >that can be accessed from other countries,
-
- >We'll have to wait for an "Export Version", which will hopefully be
- >supplied by PKWare as they did for PKZ110.
-
-
- Well, whatever the legalities, this great piece of junk called PKZIP
- 2.04c has had its "superior" encryption technology already broken
- (by Paul Kocher, who posted his results on sci.crypt just yesterday).
- He says he did it in half an hour.
-
- Yeah, right, don't export it! It may cause the ruin of some foreign
- country ot something. In fact, why don't we just quietly erase the
- darn thing from _our own_ hard drives as well.
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