Password protected

[Conspirator]

Browser: Gnome was criticizing the ZIP format not the RAR format. ZIP is seriously flawed and can be broken without brute force. RAR is for all intents and purposes unbreakable if the password is not something stupid.

btw Password comment is not encrypted. The comment on your file is "a most preferable file".

 

[Gnome]

Browser: Gnome was criticizing the ZIP format not the RAR format. ZIP is seriously flawed and can be broken without brute force. RAR is for all intents and purposes unbreakable if the password is not something stupid.

btw Password comment is not encrypted. The comment on your file is "a most preferable file".

Exactly

More specifically the standard ZIP password, Winzip/7-Zip can make non standard Rijndael encrypted zip files.

RAR on the other hand uses Rijndael also so it's pointless trying...

 

[Red Hat]

Perhaps if you have an entire bot-net at your disposal or world ranking super computer, otherwise it could take many years depending on the password. Also a brute force attack can be used on anything that requires a password or "key".

For example using WinRAR will be fine, create an achive and select "Store" for the compression method then on the Advanced tab click "Set Password" and check "Encrypt file names". Then type in a strong password, the longer you make it the better, also use different kinds of characters, like Uppercase and Lowercase, Symbols and numbers.

Eg; Qq2@ but much longer.


Edit, if you want to hide the data, thats another matter, I'm presuming you don't mind.

Thank you for all the help everyone.

So, if I use WinRAR the information on the CD/DVD will still be visible? The information should not be visible e.g. like logging in on the PC. Password and then you can access the info.

Thanks!!

 

[HavocXphere]

Make sure you check the "encrypt file names" option in WinRAR and your info will be OK.

 

[Browser]

Thank you for all the help everyone.

So, if I use WinRAR the information on the CD/DVD will still be visible? The information should not be visible e.g. like logging in on the PC. Password and then you can access the info.

Thanks!!

When someone looks at the contents of you CD/Flash drive they will see all the files in it (unless you give it a hidden partition but that's going overboard), they will see your password protected file but won't be able to see what's in this file, you could make it a little more confusing for them by giving the file a strange name (a system file name perhaps, maybe "Thumbs.db" for example instead of "MyFile.RAR"), or if you're really paranoid you could embed this protected file into another, such as a picture.JPG, so when they look at it all they see is a picture and have no idea there's something inside it (unless it's a tiny picture that's 50MB hahahah). But if you're really really paranoid use some misdirection aswell as embedding your file, you could add a garbage file, fill it with completely useless incoherent data and name it something like "MY CREDIT CARD NUMBERS.HGV" They'll spend most of their time with this file before they even get off the strarting blocks, but that's just cruel.

Edit:

Are you trying to sneek something through customs you naughty bugger? lol

 

[Red Hat]

When someone looks at the contents of you CD/Flash drive they will see all the files in it (unless you give it a hidden partition but that's going overboard), they will see your password protected file but won't be able to see what's in this file, you could make it a little more confusing for them by giving the file a strange name (a system file name perhaps, maybe "Thumbs.db" for example instead of "MyFile.RAR"), or if you're really paranoid you could embed this protected file into another, such as a picture.JPG, so when they look at it all they see is a picture and have no idea there's something inside it (unless it's a tiny picture that's 50MB hahahah). But if you're really really paranoid use some misdirection aswell as embedding your file, you could add a garbage file, fill it with completely useless incoherent data and name it something like "MY CREDIT CARD NUMBERS.HGV" They'll spend most of their time with this file before they even get off the strarting blocks, but that's just cruel.

Edit:

Are you trying to sneek something through customs you naughty bugger? lol

Who? Me? Never....

Thank you all! I think I am set.