Floppy Disk Low Level 95/98 and NT Kernal

[Gregery D Engle]

My employeer is wanting to make a security program that works
with floppy disks. He transports files back and forth with
floppy disks but he has lost floppy disks and these disks
contain vital information.

What I'm wanting to do is make a new format entirely, instead
of having a normal FAT disk, I want to make my own.

Do you guys know of any API that allows you to read/write bit/bit
on a floppy disk? And will this work in WinNT/95/98/2000?

Thanks

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-Greg

[Lance Edmonds]

Would it not be a _lot_ easier to just encrypt the files? It would certainly be a lot easier than working with the different strategies required to work with the various Win32 platform differences.

You could even use something like PGP or write an app to handle the eccryption/decryption yourself.

Just my $0.02.


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Lance
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[Gregery D Engle]

Originally posted by Lance Edmonds:
Would it not be a _lot_ easier to just encrypt the files? It would certainly be a lot easier than working with the different strategies required to work with the various Win32 platform differences.

You could even use something like PGP or write an app to handle the eccryption/decryption yourself.

Just my $0.02.

True, but not with PGP (or did you not here that they found a backdoor!

no really IMO if some guy found a disk and popped it in the floppy drive and it didn't work he wouldn't
think twice about "Hey lets check this thing out with Norton Disk Viewer eg") 99.9% of the time
if someone found a disk laying on the ground and they checked it and it
didn't work 1) they would format it 2) they would throw it away.

For the other .1 percent, they might actually open it up with a disk viewer and then
I plan on encrypting it.

If someone puts a disk in the drive and see the file "Sales 2000.pgp" I'm sure they
will understand that that disk contains Sales information.

Just my opinion though

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-Greg

[This message has been edited by Gregery D Engle (edited September 19, 2000).]

[Guest]

There is no backdoor or crack for PGP.
It would take days, months or years to
crack a single key depending upon the
computing power dedicated to the task.

Once that is done, well, they cracked one key.
So, double encrypt with a 2048 byte key and sleep
easy. Crackers aren't into encryption - they go
for the easy stuff...


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Ron

[Lance Edmonds]

I've not heard of any back-door for PGP either... where did you hear that? Do you have any URL's to that info? Thanks!

BTW, if it took a few super-computers to crack a single 128-bit encrypted email, how long to do a 4096-bit encrypted "COMPANY OWNERS PERSONAL BACK ACCOUNT DETAILS.XLS" file?

[devil's advocate ON]
If the filenames concern you, why not rename these files too... just give them sequential numbers... they would look so boring that (approximately) 99.99999999999999999999% of people would be disinterested in going further into the contents of the file. The remaining few people would then face a mammoth decryption problem.
[/devil's advocate OFF]

My 41% of 2% of US$1.00


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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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[Gregery D Engle]

Lance,

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/08/24/155214.shtml

Point taken, Just thought it would be cool to do. Anyways I just
ran accross this on the net about a PGP vulnerability that was found.

Thanks for your opinions.




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-Greg