Re: Uncrypt a file

From: Desmond Coughlan (pasdespam_desmond_at_zeouane.org)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:47:24 +0100

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Lowell <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> wrote ...

> If there were a way to decrypt the file, then what would be the point of
> using crypt in the first place?

Yeah, true, but vim's help files say that the algorithm used to encrypt can
be broken in four hours, so it's not _that_ secure ...

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Desmond Coughlan |desmond [at] zeouane [dot] org
http://www.zeouane.org/

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