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- Password Corral Frequently Asked Question List
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- Q How secure is my data with Password Corral?
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- A Extreamly secure. That said, your data is only as secure as the master
- password you choose to encrypt it with. Don't use easy to guess, short
- words. Don't use your name or birth date. Do use a combination of upper
- and lower case letters and numbers. You can also use special characters
- in your password, like the "+" and "&" characters.
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- Q How secure is my data in a Password Corral export file?
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- A Password Corral export files are just as secure as the data the program
- stores in the Windows registry.
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- Q Are there any "back doors" in Password Corral? Can Cygnus Productions or
- the U.S. government easily view my data?
-
- A There are absolutely no back doors or secret ways for Cygnus
- Productions, the U.S. government, or anyone for that matter, to decrypt
- your data. The master password you choose for your Password Corral
- account is the only way to successfully decrypt your data.
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- Q If I forget my master password, is there any way to recover my data?
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- A No. Your master password is the only way to decrypt your passwords.
- Without it there is no way to recover your data.
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- Q Is Password Corral Year 2000 Ready?
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- A Yes. See the BUGS.TXT file for more information.
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- Q Where does Password Corral store my password information?
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- A Your password information is stored in the Windows registry. This makes
- it easy for Password Corral to access the information in a standardized
- fashion. Keep in mind that if you should remove Windows from your
- system, format the hard disk with Windows on it, or in any other way
- delete your Windows directory, you'll lose your password information.
- Always have a backup copy (export file) of your passwords. A future
- version of Password Corral will move the password information from the
- registry to a file, but there is currently no timetable for this.
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- Q Why is Password Corral for use only in the USA and Canada?
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- A United States law prohibits us from permitting use to residents in
- countries other than the US and Canada. Any cryptographic materials that
- use an encryption algorithm with a key greater than 40-bits cannot be
- exported. Until this law changes we cannot grant permission to use
- Password Corral to anyone outside the US or Canada.
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- Q Will Password Corral be ported to any other platforms, like UNIX or the
- Macintosh?
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- A At the current time there are no plans to port Password Corral to any
- other platform. This is, of course, subject to change.
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- Q I'm a disk/software vendor and would like to include Password Corral in
- a disk/CD/on-line collection of software for distribution. Does Cygnus
- Productions allow this?
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- A As long as your business is a US or Canadian company and does not
- distribute Password Corral outside of either said countries, Cygnus
- Productions grants the right to distribute Password Corral at will,
- providing it is not-for-profit (save a small fee to recover any
- manufacturing or distribution costs), that Cygnus Productions receives
- full credit for the program and that the program remains unmodified and
- ships with all it's original files intact. It is requested that the
- software compilation and any included magazine or documentation be sent
- to us for our records. Those wishing to distribute Password Corral for
- profit should contact Cygnus Productions for written permission and any
- applicable licensing terms and fees.
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- Last updated 3/3/99.
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