ARCfs & password encryption

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From: Titch
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 10:24

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I have an Internet-less friend who has a serious problem: she has ARCfs'd a
great deal of stuff on her A440 to, obviously, save space. Unfortunately 
someone (she swears not her) has encrypted the whole lot using the password
option within the ARCfs menu (the password is unknown).

Questions:
	Is it possible for her to recover the encrypted archives?
	Could a virus have accessed the password encryption feature
	within ARCfs?

Any help and advice much appreciated.

Cheers,

Rich.

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Subject: ARCfs & password encryption
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