🚀 go-pugleaf

w8sdz@tacom-emh1.army.mil (Keith Petersen) writes:

>kko@fraser.sfu.ca (Samuel Ko) writes:
>>Oooh... I finally got hold of an authentic copy of pkzip/unzip 2.04c ...
>[...]
>>-Password Encryption
>>
>>	Sensitive data files can be scrambled with password protection.
>>	The security of this feature has been significantly improved in
>>	PKZIP/PKUNZIP 2.04c.

And Keith Petersen promptly interjects:

>Due to the restrictions on the exporting of encryption technology, this
>program cannot be legally offered by any FTP site in the USA or Canada
>that can be accessed from other countries,

>We'll have to wait for an "Export Version", which will hopefully be
>supplied by PKWare as they did for PKZ110. 


Well, whatever the legalities, this great piece of junk called PKZIP
2.04c has had its "superior" encryption technology already broken
(by Paul Kocher, who posted his results on sci.crypt just yesterday).
He says he did it in half an hour.

Yeah, right, don't export it! It may cause the ruin of some foreign 
country ot something. In fact, why don't we just quietly erase the 
darn thing from _our own_ hard drives as well.