On 23-09-2000 at 22:57, Januk Aggarwal kindly wrote:
> Karin Spaink typed:
>> Does anybody know what algorithm TB uses to protect mail
>> with?
> Umm, actually the help file is a bit out of date, okay, very out of
> date. TB no longer encrypts your folders.
Fine with me: I encrypt the whole disk, not particular
items.
But that answers Mark Harding's question: yes, you can use
any wich password on either computer and _still_ transfer
mailboxes from one computer to the other. Apparantly, you
don't even need to use the same password on both computers.
> Be warned with the passwords, if you have moderately computer literate
> coworkers, they can get around the passwords fairly easily.
... not to mention these nice hacking programs that will
recover passwords, such as Cain. (PGP disk _is_ much safer
than your general program password protection, and I'd
advise it over everything else.)
- K -
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