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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!bnr.co.uk!uknet!acorn!aglover
  2. From: aglover@acorn.co.uk (Alan Glover)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
  4. Subject: Re: ARCfs & password encryption
  5. Message-ID: <20846@acorn.co.uk>
  6. Date: 21 Dec 92 11:03:45 GMT
  7. References: <1992Dec17.102446.2945@unix.brighton.ac.uk>
  8. Sender: aglover@acorn.co.uk
  9. Organization: Acorn Computers Ltd, Cambridge, England
  10. Lines: 17
  11.  
  12. >Questions:
  13. > Is it possible for her to recover the encrypted archives?
  14.  
  15. Probably not very easily. One thought - turn on the garble option, but
  16. don't enter a password ... this may be what happened in the first
  17. place.
  18.  
  19. > Could a virus have accessed the password encryption feature
  20. > within ARCfs?
  21.  
  22. I don't know of any that do this.
  23.  
  24. Alan
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