[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS question
- From: Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 16:14:19 +0100
In article <540DAB20.6050400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Pilling <flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> On 08/09/2014 13:17, Gerald Chat wrote:
> > I am assuming that you created a zip rather than a spark archive?
> I don't remember... Spark archives are 'garble' or DES. Garble is
> extremely weak and anyone who knows the trick will be able to break it
> in seconds.
We have an option, and DES is one of them.
> Did I allow DES on Zip? If so it is non-standard. Phil Katz the
> originator of the Zip format did his own encryption which is the Zip
> standard.
With SparkFS there are no options to encrypt or password protect... Well
I've never found a way?
> The problem you will encounter is if anyone has supported DES on Zip,
> they won't necessarily have done it the way I have - there's no standard.
> It has been suggested to me that I allow files in archives greater than
> 2GB - recent changes to RISC OS make this possible. Users would probably
> prefer standard Zip encryption and rename.
The problem is bigger than I first thought.
See my answer to Gerald.
Dave
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