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Vesselin Bontchev (bontchev@fbihh.informatik.uni-hamburg.de) wrote:

: frey@alfheim.actrix.gen.nz (Bruce Clement) writes:
: 
: > In either case, I would only look on encryption as a defense against relativel
: > simple attacks. Presumably the program can be read with a debugger, and the 
: > key should be derivable from the fact that the plain text of the DOS boot 
: > sector is known.
: 
: It depends on the encryption method used. If it is DES, or something
: equally strong, you are simply out of luck.

Then again, DES isn't that strong if your keys aren't chosen carefully (for a
discussion of this, see sci.crypt).
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