Re: xy dos encryption

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

"J. R. Fox"  wrote:
> For email, there is PGP (Pretty Good Privacy, which I believe
> was taken over by NAI, of McAfee Anti-Virus fame.) For major,
> longer documents, probably something else is indicated.

Bill Troop  wrote:
> doesn't anyone know of a really good way to encrypt archives? I
> expect we all have confidential data we'd like to store
> somewhere safely.

PGP is not for e-mail only, and not only for public-key encryption
either. It can be used as a standalone, DOS command-line program to
do conventional (pass-phrase) encryption. The last DOS version
(v2.6.2) was released in 1994; the current Windows release is
v6.5.8. I've used the DOS version to encrypt|decrypt multi-megabyte
..ZIP files. A web search for PGP will return thousands of sites. A
good starting point is http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html.

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