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From: "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Copy protection of the floppies
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:07:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031125090727.GA1560@Master> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5F0021EEA434D511BE7300D0B7B6AB530CA67677@mail2.ggn.hcltech.com>

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:07:29AM +0530, Pravin Nanaware , Gurgaon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 1> Could somebody suggest me the way to protect floppy from copying it's
> contents. 
> 2> If not possible, will it be possible to make the copied floppy unworkable
> (The copied floppy shouldn't work).  
>    For this I have constraint, I don't want to change the platform, which
> reads this floppy.
> 
> 
> The contents of the floppy could be anything like text file, exe file or
> encrypted file.

Encrypt the data. That's the only way that actually works. 

-- 
Murray J. Root


  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-25  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-25  5:37 Copy protection of the floppies Pravin Nanaware , Gurgaon
2003-11-25  9:07 ` Murray J. Root [this message]
2003-11-25  9:12 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-25  9:28 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2003-11-25  9:40   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-25 10:55     ` Matthias Andree
2003-11-25 16:07     ` Ricky Beam
2003-11-25 18:37       ` Nick
2003-11-25 20:07         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-25 20:52         ` Ricky Beam
2003-11-26  3:55         ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-25 10:47 ` Helge Hafting
2003-11-25 20:18 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-11-25 20:32   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-11-26  3:58     ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-27  6:07 ` Willy Tarreau

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