ENCRYPTING DATA AND HIDING FILES

One way to protect your sensitive information is to keep it in a Lotus worksheet and save it with a Password. To do this when saving the worksheet, type in the name you wish to save the file under, followed by an empty space and the letter P. Then press (ENTER). You will be prompted to enter a password (see page 6-11 of the HP 95LX User's Guide). The password is required to retrieve the worksheet into Lotus, and the sensitive data is not visible with any hex file editor like Norton Utilities.

A LOTUS spreadsheet damage recovery program called RESCUE has an included program that will rescue a forgotten password.

Another way to encrypt data is to use a file compression program like DIET.

Marc Schiffring

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