Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!ndsuvm1!plains!bakke From: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Bakke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PKZIP version 1.10 and data encryption Message-ID: <3930@plains.UUCP> Date: 29 Mar 90 06:00:38 GMT References: <1990Mar28.035417.6496@eng.umd.edu> <2170@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Reply-To: bakke@plains.UUCP (Jeffrey P. Bakke) Organization: North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 29 In article <2170@darkstar.ucsc.edu> ted@helios.ucsc.edu (Ted Cantrall) writes: >This whole idea is absurd! >If these encryption routines are so valuable to foreign persons, our >borders are so open, that they would just come here on "vacation" and buy >them! (or have their embassy buy them and send them in a diplomatic pouch) >In other words, the bad guys get them before we do. >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >ted@helios.ucsc.edu | "If I get any phone calls while I'm gone, >(408)459-2110 | just don't answer them." >------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I just got a copy of Pkzip 1.10 from the signetics BBS, its a 800 number. I can't believe that they would worry about having it on the network. As far as I can tell, the so called "security" problem that is caused is because of a data verification algorithm which you means you can zip up a program and include your company and name and a special serial number which becomes encoded inside the zip file. When you unzip, it then checks to make sure that your files haven't been modified. Basically it protects against unauthorized modifications and possible trojan modifications. Also, not just anyone can use this feature, you must register your copy in order to receive a serial number that will function correctly with the authorization function. And, you can only get this version in the U.S and Cananda. Jeff Bakke bakke@plains.NoDak.edu Also, the t