Re: makepasswd: naive question
On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 05:52:50PM +0300, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> I want to protect some ZiP floppy with passwords generated by
> makepassd, and maintain a list of ZiP encrypted passwords as root: I
> guess that I have to decrypt the passwords to use them in view to
> unprotect my ZiP floppies. Can we do that ?
I assume you are talking protecting file contents in removable media
such as IOmega ZIP DRIVE and FLOPPY disk by encryption.
Yes. Several ways to do it.
1. Use encrypted file system. (I never done it)
2. Use "gpg". (Package: "gnupg" GNU privacy guard, stong encryption)
3. Use "zip". (Package: "zip" Archiver for .zip files, weak encryption)
4. Use "rot13". (Package: "bsdgames". super weak but no password.)
...
$ gpg -c <infile >/mnt/zip/outfile
...
$ zip -e file /mnt/zip/zipfile
Nice thing about rot13 is you do not need to remember password. But any
one with slight clue can read it.
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