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Backups tapes a backdoor for identity thieves
Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2005-04-28

In many cases, low paid workers are handling sensitive tapes, but only a small fraction of companies are securing the data with encryption.

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Your crypto is old and slow! 2005-05-06
Roger
"a standard cpu will manage somewhere around 1-10Mbps - significantly less than the throughput of tape drives and networks."

Optimised modern crypto can do much better than that. Reasonably good implementations of RC4 on a 32 bit, 1.8 GHz machine do around 150 MB/s. That's B, not b, in other word...

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