From owner-freebsd-security Mon Nov 26 18: 9:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-105.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADF3437B405 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:09:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C388F66C29; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:09:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:09:11 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: crypted remote backup Message-ID: <20011126180911.B21006@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20011126175320.C20635@xor.obsecurity.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20011126205442.043d1fe0@192.168.0.12> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NMuMz9nt05w80d4+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011126205442.043d1fe0@192.168.0.12>; from mike@sentex.net on Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:58:17PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 08:58:17PM -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: >=20 > What is password security like in programs like RAR ? The warez traders= =20 > seem to like to use it for posting to newsgroups because you can add extr= a=20 > recovery information into each of the parts/volumes. There is also a bui= lt=20 > in encryption option. Do think it is sufficiently safe ? I don't know enough about it to evaluate it. It all depends on what encryption algorithm they use. Kris --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8AvXGWry0BWjoQKURAoOqAKCFRrxXs8myqoZL6ovAnKtnf2CLqwCfXy5c zNMnRfFPI/NFjL8qN6Xpf4I= =0djo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NMuMz9nt05w80d4+-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message