File Encryption (and Palm Pilot)

[Jerry Feldman]

I just went to their site. Looks like an interesting product. Also they have 
a note about their generated passwords security problem.

On 7 Aug 2001, at 12:44, Sheldon Dubrowin wrote:

> I use a program called strip (secure tool for recalling important
> passwords)
> which uses either 128 bit Idea or 56 bit DES.  It asks for a password
> when
> entering the program and when you switch apps or turn off the device it
> locks
> up again (requiring a password again).  A friend brought this back from
> black hat a couple years ago.  It has a password generator feature, but
> bugtraq claims this is very weak, so I wouldn't use that feature.
> However, I
> have seen no complaints about the application.  You can download it for
> free
> from www.zetetic.net.
> 
> 	Shel
> 
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:52:22PM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > I've got 2 questions in regards to encryption
> > 1. I currently keep passwords in my Palm Pilot. At one time I had the 
> > entire unit password protected, but I removed that because it was a
> pain.  
> > I also use the information both on Windows at work as well as on my
> Lini\ux 
> > system at home. I'm more interested in securing the the data while it
> is on 
> > the Palm in the event it gets lost or stolen. So I'm looking for a way
> that 
> > I can either encrypt specific files on the Palm in such a way that I
> can 
> > not only decrypt them on the Palm, but also on both my Windows and
> Linux 
> > platforms. Alternatively, I could password protect my Palm either by
> using 
> > the built in password. For the most part, people steal Palms to seel
> them 
> > not for any data.
> > 
> > 2. I was just curious what encryption software people were using in
> general 
> > to encrypt data on Linux. In the past, I have written DES encryption 
> > programs for clients (using the PD DES functions available).
> > -- 
> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix user group
> > http://www.blu.org
> > 
> > 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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