[Preston] Reading an encrypted file from a windows machine

[jeremy ekers]

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James Green wrote:

| I'm not sure how paranoid you are about this, but given you were using
| gpg before, I assume at least somewhat. Hence I should point out that
| zip encryption is reported to be *really*, *really*, *REALLY* shoddy and
| weak. I haven't tested this myself, but I suggest if you care enough to
| be encrypting this data, you try running some of the tools at
| ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/cryptanalysis/ over your encrypted zip
| file before trusting it to be at all secure.

I believe zip and MS Word 'encryption' is easily crackable. (google is
your fiend: http://www.stack.nl/~galactus/remailers/index-crack.html).

| Are there not PGP-like things for Windows that will do what you want?
| I've not looked, really, having not used Windows for a while now. A
| friend of mine swears by BestCrypt (http://www.jetico.com/) -- then
| again, he's firmly convinced that various UK and/or US government
| agencies have backdoors to crack PGP, so I'm not sure how seriously I'd
| take his opinions :-)

Use GPG, being compatible without those pesky holes (or was that moles?).

regards,
jeremy

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