On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Siano, James C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> If I lost a tape – say SDLT or LTO-x – that was written with Backexc 9.0 > and someone on this forum found it….had the write hardware…and either a > version of BackupExec 9 or greater, or, an instance of Netbackup…..could you > read my tape? The tape is non-encrypted. > > Could you do it if the tape was encrypted --- and had as long as necessary > to attempt to crack the encryption. > Obviously, yes, to both - an unencrypted tape and an encrypted tape. The goal with encryption is to make the problem take so long that it's no longer practical. For example, if it took me 250 years to crack your bank account, what good would it do me? .../Ed Ed Wilts, RHCE, BCFP, BCSD, SCSP, SCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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