[plug] protecting a tar file

[Michael Holland]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Denis Brown wrote:

> and the tar file moved onto a hostile machine, can I set internally to the
> tar file, permissions to prevent access to the archive contents?

Denis,
unfortunately you can set all the permission bits you want, but there is
currently no way of enforcing it.
  The good news is that a number of companies are working on remedying
this problem. With DRM technologies such as Palladium, you will gain
control over who can access your data, and how.


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