Single User I.P.B. 1027

Single User I.P.B. 1027		17th May 1991 (CD)
Department	Category	Implementation

DOS Apps	Software	Advisory

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The Enhanced Apricot Security Pack

The Enhanced Apricot Security Pack has today been released. It is the same as release 4 with several important additions. Please note that as this release 7 is an all-new product (not a bug fix), there will not be a free of charge upgrade from previous versions.

New Features

Block Encryption for MS-DOS
Password History
Minimum Password Lifetime

Product Code: SE45770
RRP: Ł65.00

Block Encryption allows the user to add a "system seed" to both floppy and hard disk drives which is used to scramble all stored data. This means that the disk can only be read by a machine with the same seed, thus allowing company or department wide compatibility of disks. If a disk should however go outside that group, it would be unreadable by any other system. Adding encryption to the floppy drive also prevents the unwanted introduction of viruses or games via the floppy. When encryption is applied to floppy disks, only the Master user can create an unencrypted floppy for external release; any disks not formatted on a machine with that seed will be unreadable. Only the Master user can temporarily disable the encryption to read a floppy (such as commercial software) from outside the group.

Password History prevents the user from using the same password over and over again. For users who change password too often or too seldom, the master can specify the number of days between each change. Password History then ensures they don't use the same password twice.

Supported Hardware

LANstation 20*, Qi 386SX-16, Qi 386-25, Qi 486-25, VX FT, FTs.

Please note that a card allowing a free of charge upgrade of the Security Processor and the ROM BIOS is included in the pack, and must be returned for the use of these enhanced features.

* LANstation machines do not support Password History or Minimum Password Lifetime as the Security Processor is a soldered component. Setting the floppy disk drive to Read Only will result in the floppy drive being disabled completely and set-up errors occurring on soft reboot.

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