Password Protecting files

[One Angry User]

On a rainy Tuesday, the 21st day of August, 2007, Dave Korn's computer deigned to emit the following stream of bytes:

> On 20 August 2007 20:36, Michael Schaap wrote:
>
> > On 20-Aug-2007 21:25, Warren Young wrote:
> >> Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Of course, for a thoroughly secure way of protecting your data you could
> >>> run it through a hippo
> >>
> >> Hippo is a *hash* algorithm, you twit, not an encryption algorithm.
> >> It's obvious to anyone who looks at it that it's a one-way function.
> >>
> > You mean, all that time I've spent trying to decrypt Hippo dung has been
> > wasted?  Sheesh, you could've mentioned that a bit earlier...
> >
> >  - Michael
>
>   <looks up, arms up to elbows in pile of hippo dung>
>
>   You mean we were meant to be decrypting this?  I thought we were just
> playing in the dirt for fun!

And that, folks, is the sorry state of the cryptography industry today.

OAU