Re: Old UNIX ftp archive - access ideas

Mahlzeit According to Warren Toomey: Isn't ftp for a $200-programm secure enough? I'm doing beta testing for a programm, which costs $1100 and they distribute the passwords for ftp by unencrypted mail. They do that allready for a few releases and I don't think they had any problems with that. I don't think you need a very large key. Everyone, which has the choice to crack a 512bit key or to pay $200, would choose to pay. I think pgp is to difficult to use for some. You could use a simple encryption programm like: ftp://isidor.ethz.ch/pub/simpl/safer.V1.1.tar.Z which should be very portable. The passphrase could be distributed on the license. Mahlzeit endergone Zwiebeltuete -- insanity inside Received: from henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (henry.cs.adfa.oz.au [131.236.21.158]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03636 for <oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>au>; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:22:04 +1000 (EST) Received: (from wkt@localhost) by henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03135; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:22:08 +1000 (EST) From: Warren Toomey <wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Message-Id: <199708062322.JAA03135(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> Subject: George's PDP Tape in UK To: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (PDP Unix Preservation) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:22:07 +1000 (EST) Cc: George.Coulouris(a)dcs.qmw.ac.uk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear PDP-11 UNIXers, Just got this back from George Coulouris in the UK. He's got an old tape with PDP-11 UNIX software on it which he'd like to read: * In article by George Coulouris: * > Warren, * > Thanks for your reply. I'd be happy to liase with anyone who is willing to * > have a go at reading the tape. * > George * [and later...] * Did anybody get back to you about reading that old PDP-11 tape, George?? No, I'm afraid not. I have been told that there is a 9-track tape drive at another centre in London, but I haven't pursued it 'cos I was waiting for contact from your people. George ------- Can anybody in the UK or Europe who would be happy to read this old tape for George & for the PUPS archive please email him! His address is George.Coulouris(a)dcs.qmw.ac.uk Many thanks in advance, Warren wkt(a)cs.adfa.oz.au Received: from bernoulli.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de (mathe2e.numerik.math.Uni-Siegen.DE [141.99.158.230]) by minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA10664 for <oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>au>; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 18:44:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from descartes.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de (descartes.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de [141.99.112.4]) by bernoulli.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de (Mailhost) with SMTP id KAA11395; Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:41:25 +0200 (MET DST) From: Michael Engel <engel(a)numerik.math.uni-siegen.de> Message-Id: <9708070839.AA04553(a)descartes.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de> Received: by descartes.numerik.math.uni-siegen.de id AA04553; Thu, 7 Aug 97 10:39:43 +0200 Subject: Re: George's PDP Tape in UK To: wkt(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:39:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: oldunix(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au, George.Coulouris(a)dcs.qmw.ac.uk In-Reply-To: <199708062322.JAA03135(a)henry.cs.adfa.oz.au> from "Warren Toomey" at Aug 7, 97 09:22:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Hi, it seems my mail didn`t come through last time ... We have a TU81+ 9 track tape connected to a VMS Alpha here. So, if you send me the tape, I will try to read it. Worked perfectly some months ago for a 10 yr. old tape from a DECsystem 10 ... regards, Michael Engel (engel(a)unix-ag.uni-siegen.de)