[ale] Security is still hard

Bob Toxen transam at verysecurelinux.com
Tue Oct 4 14:17:27 EDT 2022


I have seen some "password protection schemes" in applications on
WinDoze merely prohibit the App from showing the contents of a file
without actually encrypting the file's contents.  Thus, one need only
do an octal dump or use an editor to change the password within the file.

Bob

On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 06:51:27PM -0400, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> Only if is password locked with 1234 or 0000 like luggage.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 6:43 PM DJPfulio--- via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 10/3/22 12:25, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> > > I upgraded to rot26. It's twice as strong as rot13.
> >
> > I've seen ZIP compression claimed to be encryption.  100% serious.


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