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Re: password protection of a file



On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 17:44 -0200, Toshiro wrote:
> > > wrote:
> > > > > would you mind mailing it to me as an attachment or posting the
> > > > > MD5sum? I don't seem to be copy and pasting it correctly, based on
> > > > > fcrackzip not seeing it as a zip file.
> > > >
> > > > You are uudecoding it first, right?  I pasted it into test.zip.uu and
> > > > then ran "uudecode test.zip.uu", and it was just fine.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Michael A. Marsh
> > > > http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
> > >
> > > Thanks, I thought I was doing something silly and have never seen uucode
> > > before.
> >
> > Thanks for making me feel old...
> 
> Don't worry, you're not alone :)
> 
> By the way, I've used uuencode because I don't know if this list allows 
> messages with attachments; I can't believe I'm the only person (dinosaur?) 
> that uses uuencode.

I think you are...

Did you paste the "stuff" directly into your browser?
Evolution treated it as an attachment, even though when I look
at the "raw email" I see that it's not MIME.  Brings me back to
1995.  Sorta like Austin Powers.

  begin 644 test.zip
  M4$L#!!0`"0`(`,IX+S+%NAW/<P<``-4D```+`!4`;6EN:6-O;2YL;V=55`D`
  M`XM-Z4'YIIY!57@$`.@#Z`/858J[XG+$Q8),G1<J,N3]A?EOP@'-,6M0A[;G
  MDS7#A5@H\]`K^H6)4U"*U]?W#\ZNEJ!PAN^9)$WZ8=H1W^"5SV/YGW;]Q*DU
  [snip]
  M`-4D``!02P$"%P,4``D`"`#*>"\RQ;H=SW,'``#5)```"P`-```````!````
  MI($`````;6EN:6-O;2YL;V=55`4``XM-Z4%5>```4$L%!@`````!``$`1@``
  '`,$'````````
  `
  end

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson, LA USA
PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail.

$ python -c 'print len(str(2**3000000))'
903090

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