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Date:      Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:41:16 -0500
From:      David_Gadoury@ccnotes.ccity.com
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Off Topic AND Newbie-ish! Security...
Message-ID:  <852568A5.004A6933.00@danube.ccity.com>

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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.




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