From owner-freebsd-security Mon Nov 26 18:27:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from cithaeron.argolis.org (bgm-66-67-16-161.stny.rr.com [66.67.16.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6752437B416 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 18:27:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (piechota@localhost) by cithaeron.argolis.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id fAR2R3w25750 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:27:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from piechota@argolis.org) X-Authentication-Warning: cithaeron.argolis.org: piechota owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:27:03 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Piechota To: Subject: Re: crypted remote backup In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20011126205442.043d1fe0@192.168.0.12> Message-ID: <20011126212255.M25710-100000@cithaeron.argolis.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > What is password security like in programs like RAR ? The warez traders > seem to like to use it for posting to newsgroups because you can add extra > recovery information into each of the parts/volumes. There is also a built > in encryption option. Do think it is sufficiently safe ? While you're at it, you might want to look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/parchive/ It's a utility to recreate parts of split files that become damaged or lost. It's basicly RAID for files. I haven't used it myself on BSD, but a tried it on a Windows box, and it did as advertised. -- Matt Piechota To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message