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- THIS FILE DESCRIBES THE CHANGES IN THE BLOWFISH ADVANCED 97 VERSIONS
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- 5 October 98: Version 1.12 released
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- NEW:
- - CAST UCDI driver (thanks to Walter Dvorak)
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- FIXED:
- - request dialog for overwrite existing files
- wasn't called correctly (thanks to Delphi 4)
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- 24 September 98: Version 1.11 released
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- CHANGED:
- - no online registrations possible anymore
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- FIXED:
- - program crashed after executed drap+drop encrypt/decrypt/wipe
- - target path wasn't created properly sometimes for copy and move
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- 17 September 98: Version 1.10 released
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- NEW:
- - encrypted files can now also be viewed by drag+drop
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- CHANGED:
- - new address of the Blowfish Advanced 97 homepage (see help file)
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- 2 August 98: Version 1.09 released
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- NEW:
- - TwoFish UCDI driver
- - option for write-protecting files after encryption
- - compiled with Borland Delphi 4
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- CHANGED:
- - clearing empty disk space is faster (and able to
- process more than 2GB)
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- FIXED:
- - free drive space larger than 2GB is now shown correctly
- - rest problem when clearing empty disk space
- - progres window wasn't closed sometimes when the application
- was minimized
- - on multiple job-files the execution was stopped if no files
- were found at one of the jobs
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- 31 May 98: Version 1.08 released
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- NEW:
- - preview of Blowfish Advanced CS (see help file)
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- CHANGED:
- - font of the "Clear empty disk space" dialog
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- FIXED:
- - wiping didn't work properly on different versions of
- Windows 95
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- 13 Mar 98: Version 1.07 released
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- NEW:
- - new standard UCDI driver implementing the GOST algorithm
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- CHANGED:
- - testing a driver will now additionally show the size of its
- information block
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- FIXED:
- - uncritical error in the interpreter for binary passwords,
- can be reactivated by the new option "Fix problem with
- binary passwords" to decrypt old files
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- 10 Mar 98: Version 1.06 released
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- NEW:
- - "Which algorithm is the best one?" in the help file (see chapter
- "File Format and Technical Reference")
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- CHANGED:
- - The UCDI was slightly changed in its functionality. THE NEW
- DRIVERS WON'T WORK WITH VERSIONS OF BLOWFISH ADVANCED 97 LOWER
- THAN 1.06! BUT THEY ARE STILL COMPATIBLE TO THEIR PREDECESSORS,
- SO CONVERSIONS OF ENCRYPTED FILES ARE NOT NECESSARY AT ALL.
- - text display the job report uses the Courier font now
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- FIXED:
- - all UCDI drivers were rebuilt and are now as small as possible
- - text display in the job report wasn't resizable
- - file renaming caused problems on some systems, the set of characters
- for random renaming was reduced to letters and numbers
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- 6 Feb 98: Version 1.05 released
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- FIXED:
- - wrong triple-DES driver (1.00.033) was included in the last
- version, correct version is now 1.00.050
- - if only one file with the size of zero was encrypted the
- progress bar threw a division by zero exception
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- 31 Jan 98: Version 1.04 released
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- NEW:
- - triple-DES now included as a standard driver in the package
- - uninstall information in INSTALL.TXT now available
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- CHANGED:
- - redesigned the ugly "Stop" button (BTW, [ESC] key does the same)
- - hint of the button to exit the program is now "Exit" and not "Check Out"
- - "View", not "Decrypt" as the caption for the password dialog now (if
- viewing encrypted files)
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- FIXED:
- - if the password was valid, but the crypt driver was the wrong one
- "no BFA file" appeared (which is not really true at all)
- - clicks on the "Stop" button were ignored sometimes while decrypting
- - removing a driver from the list caused a wrong driver list
- - program does a retry after a "weak key error" now, this should be
- enough even for the Blowfish encryption algorithm
- - some characters are not used for random renaming anymore,
- especially '~', which seemed to confuse Windows 95
- - favorites and the target path list are now sorted, no error, just better
- - extension ".bfa" is now lowercase (seems to be standard under Win32)
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- 15 Dec 97: Version 1.03 released
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- CHANGED:
- - the filebrowser shows readonly files by default now
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- FIXED:
- - wrong message in the wipe confirmation (German version only)
- - files were not closed properly after decryption in some cases
- - changing the target path didn't activate the "Apply" button
- - password and option dialogs were not shown correctly if the
- desktop was turned to large fonts
- - problem with renamed cryptfiles with the equal original names
- - clicks on the "Stop" button didn't work properly
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- 9 Dec 97: Version 1.02 released
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- FIXED:
- - new filename (after renaming) wasn't shown correctly
- - "wiping original file" was always invisible
- - exception on invalid time codes wasn't catched
- - encrypted files were not closed properly in some special cases
- - shareware dialog was shown in the small password dialog even
- in the registered release
- - passwords were registered by the Auto Confirmation when decrypting
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- 5 Dec 97: Version 1.01 released
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- NEW:
- - improved random generator with SHA-1
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- FIXED:
- - problem showing the shareware tip
- - job-report form was always visible after the process
- - PC1 driver: minor bug fix in an unused function
- - Blowfish driver: minor bug fix in an unused function
- - program caption was "MainForm" a short time after the start
- - move+copy: the "already-exists" requests showed the source path
- - obsolete "wiping original file" message on read-only devices like CD-ROMSs
- - help for popup menu failed if F1 was pressed
- - wrong file name in the "already exists" warning while encrypting
- - decrypt problems if encrypted files were readonly
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- 10 Nov 97: Version 1.0 released
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