Re: ARCfs & password encryption

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From: Alan Glover
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:03

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>Questions:
> Is it possible for her to recover the encrypted archives?

Probably not very easily. One thought - turn on the garble option, but
don't enter a password ... this may be what happened in the first
place.

> Could a virus have accessed the password encryption feature
> within ARCfs?
 
I don't know of any that do this.

Alan
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Subject: Re: ARCfs & password encryption
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