Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 04:07:27 -0500
From: "Murray J. Root" <murrayr@brain.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Copy protection of the floppies
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:07:29AM +0530, Pravin Nanaware , Gurgaon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 1> Could somebody suggest me the way to protect floppy from copying it's
> contents. 
> 2> If not possible, will it be possible to make the copied floppy unworkable
> (The copied floppy shouldn't work).  
>    For this I have constraint, I don't want to change the platform, which
> reads this floppy.
> 
> 
> The contents of the floppy could be anything like text file, exe file or
> encrypted file.

Encrypt the data. That's the only way that actually works. 

-- 
Murray J. Root

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