Re: privacy on Unix-servers

From: David Magda (dmagda+usenet@ee.ryerson.ca)
Date: 01/23/03 

From: David Magda <dmagda+usenet@ee.ryerson.ca>
Date: 23 Jan 2003 13:00:16 -0500

icestore@web.de (steve) writes:
[...]
> btw: Is the ZIP-encrypting routine version2.7 as safe as PGP?
> ...or can you call it safe even if it is not as good as PGP?

ZIP encrypting is only useful against people who don't know what they
are doing. Anyone with a modicum of talent will be able to break it. 

-- 
David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca>
Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under
the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well 
under the new. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, _The Prince_, Chapter VI

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