Top Tip: C: security via encryption? | eWeek

Top Tip: C: security via encryption?

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Jun 30, 2003
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Question from genethomas2095
“To all hackers, would be hackers, super techs and CSOs.

If I have certain folders and files on C: encrypted, just really how safe are these files from intruders?

Save a brute force attack on all the combinations possible on a 35 character password, how ill it be cracked?”

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