From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 17 5:41:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from danube.ccity.com (danube.circuitcity.com [12.26.69.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5551537BBF2 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:41:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from David_Gadoury@ccnotes.ccity.com) Received: by danube.ccity.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.5 (863.2 5-20-1999)) id 852568A5.004A6B05 ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:32:50 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: CARMAX@CIRCUIT CITY@CCEXTERNAL From: David_Gadoury@ccnotes.ccity.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <852568A5.004A6933.00@danube.ccity.com> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:41:16 -0500 Subject: Re: Off Topic AND Newbie-ish! Security... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG astalavista.box.sk do some searches and see what comes up :) > How secure is a pkzipped file that has been zipped with a password? My > company is considering exchanging data, possibly sensitive, with another > company who wants to "encrypt" by pkzipping to a password. Isn't the > algorithm for pkzip too well known to be secure? I haven't heard of anyone breaking it, but it isn't considered cryptographically strong, since it's just an XOR algorithm. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message