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- Interscope BlackBox 4.0 (build 4.0.0.1401)
- 29th March, 2000
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- 1) Added text encryption to the system tray interface. This allows you to encrypt
- the (text) context of the clipboard and of any window and greately simplifies
- sending encrypted information by e-mail, with any kind of e-mail client
- 2) Interscope BlackBox now integrates into Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Microsoft
- Outlook Express 4.x and 5.x, broadening your options and simplifying secure messaging
- 3) Improved cryptosystem with revised security and faster processing
- 4) Far more powerful file wiping than in previous versions is built-in, including
- free disk space wiping and swap file clearing on shutdown. Wipe methods include
- Gutmann (35 passes), US Dept. of Defense (7 passes), overwrite with pseudorandom
- data (variable number of passes) and overwrite with custom patterns (variable
- number of passes)
- 5) Up to 250 wipe steps can be performed
- 6) It is now possible to also wipe the swap file on reboot (Windows NT/2000 only)
- 7) BlackBox can now automatically check for updates
- 8) When decrypting a file or a chunk of text encrypted with and algorithm for which
- you do not have and encryption engine installed, BlackBox can automatically download
- and install it for you (opposed to sending you to a web page as in earlier versions)
- 9) Much improved user interface, with too many minor feature and fixes to list here
- 10) Easier and more fine grained customization of features and settings
- 11) Predefined levels of user interface and security settings, making configuration as
- simple as three clicks for the majority of the users
- 12) Support for keyboard shortcuts saves you the hassle of having to go to the Start Menu
- or the system tray to access most BlackBox features
- 13) Improved command line interface
- 14) Updated help file, web site and support pages
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- Interscope BlackBox 3.3 (build 3.3.0.502)
- 8th March, 2001
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- 1) Fixed several issues affecting stability on Windows 98 and Windows ME
- 2) Fixed problems with decryption after the trial period is over
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- Interscope BlackBox 3.2 (build 3.2.0.400)
- 1st November, 2000
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- 1) Added command line interface to BlackBox, so that now it is possible to run
- unattended encryption and decryption jobs
- 2) Fixed problem with creation of self extractor resulting in an empty (no files
- added, thus invalid) .exe archive when all the files selected to encrypt into
- a self-extractor are either excluded by exclusion rules in effect or are
- already encrypted and multiple encryption is disabled (thus the files are
- excluded)
- 3) Fixed problem causing files date/times not to be restored correctly after
- decryption on Windows 9x and ME systems
- 4) Self-extracting archives can now also store (and restore) empty folders
- 5) Updated the help file
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- Interscope BlackBox 3.1 (build 3.1.0.211)
- 24th April, 2000
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- 1) Fixed problem with security set consolidation causing infinite recursion
- when attempting to consolidate into a folder that is included in the security
- set or is a subfolder of some folder included in the set
- 2) BlackBox now asks for overwrite permission when consolidating security set
- without retaining the directory structure
- 3) Fixed problem with encryption into self-extracting archive with compression
- and the option to remove originals after encryption turned on not deleting
- the original files
- 4) Improved integration into third-party shells (Windows Explorer replacements)
- 5) Fixed dates in overwrite prompt dialog of self-extractor archives
- 6) Fixed problem with self-extractor archives not storing topmost empty folders
- of selectiong (e.g. if user selected for encryption only folders that were
- themselves only containing other subfolders, at extract time the directory
- structure was restored starting with the first folder that contained at
- least a file)
- 7) Increased the supported wipe steps to 50
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- Interscope BlackBox 3.0 (build 3.0.0.201)
- 3rd February, 2000
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- 1) BlackBox evolved into an open framework for file encryption. It now supports
- encryption engine plug-ins that implement modular data encryption. By default,
- BlackBox comes with the traditional 56-bit DES engine, but additional engines
- (Blowfish, RC4, IDEA etc.) are available from
- http://www.essentialdetails.com/blackbox/engines.asp
- 2) New BlackBox Engine SDK for writing your own encryption engine is now available.
- All encryption engines are based on COM technology and this lets anyone write
- its own, using any development tool (C, C++, Java, Visual Basic, Delphi etc.)
- (s)he wishes. BlackBox will then recognize all installed engines without any
- additional configuration or reinstallation. Get the SDK from
- http://www.essentialdetails.com/blackbox/sdk.asp
- 3) You can now send your files securely by e-mail in a snap using the new context
- menu item "Encrypt and Send..."
- 4) Processing of multiple files is now faster, due to the fact that worker
- threads that do the actual compression/encryption are now recycled
- 5) New authentication method that uses TripleDES improves encryption strength
- 6) It is now possible to configure BlackBox to not store the owner login name
- in the encrypted files
- 7) Added compression support to self-extractor archives
- 8) New feature to consolidate (copy/move all objects in) security set
- to a specified folder in one simple step
- 9) BlackBox now displays a tooltip when a .des or .ibx file is selected in
- Windows Explorer. The tooltip shows the encryption details
- (encryption algorithm used to encrypt the file, original size, etc.)
- that you can also see on the Encryption page in the file properties dialog
- 10) All encryption-specific items in file and folder context menus can now be
- grouped in a submenu, thus reducing pollution of the Windows Explorer
- context menus
- 11) BlackBox no longer displays encryption-related items in the context menu
- when the Start button is right-clicked
- 12) New tutorial on file security, secure information distribution and safe
- disposal of your old data
- 13) Updated the help file
- 14) New setup program with a more reliable shared component handling
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- Interscope BlackBox 2.1 SR2 (build 2.1.0.163)
- 14th September, 1999
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- 1) Fixed problem with setup crashing on non-english Windows NT platforms
- 2) Files are now processed (encrypted/decrypted) faster because the encryption
- engine can now encrypt/decrypt more than 8 bytes in one call
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- Interscope BlackBox 2.1 SR1 (build 2.1.0.160)
- 22nd July, 1999
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- 1) Fixed problem with Microsoft Word crashing after opening an encrypted .doc file by
- double clicking it directly in Windows Explorer
- 2) Fixed problem with creation of self-extracting archives, when files were garbled if
- BlackBox was configured to leave files added in a self-exctracting archive encryptd
- in their original location
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- Interscope BlackBox 2.1
- 2nd June, 1999
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- 1) Optimized both the size and the speed of the modules
- 2) Added support for Windows 2000
- 2) Fixed several bugs in the setup program, mostly concerning installations on Windows NT
- and Windows 2000
- 3) Checked and fixed a few minor bugs related to Y2K
- 4) Updated the help file
- 5) Added banners in the password dialogs
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- Interscope BlackBox 2.0
- 1st January, 1999
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- 1) Incorporated feature to encrypt whole directory structures into single-file
- self-extracting executables, useful for Internet distribution
- 2) Added exclusion rules and now specified files and/or folders can be excluded
- so that they never get encrypted
- 3) The encryption algorithm is now implemented as a free-threaded COM component,
- so that it is faster and multiple encryption jobs can now run concurrently
- 4) The files are now encrypted with DES in CBC mode, which is more secure because all
- encrypted blocks depend on the previous ones. The files that are encrypted with
- previous versions of BlackBox in standard (ECB) mode can still be decrypted
- 5) During decryption of multiple files, if some files are to be decrypted for which the
- initially given password is not good, another password is asked for. Then a list of
- passwords is kept and before user is bothered for another password every password
- in the list is tried.
- 6) Revised the algorithm used to display the Encrypt... and Decrypt... options on the
- context menu. Now it is possible to decrypt multiple files, even if not all the
- selected files are DES-encrypted ones, and also to decrypt whole directories
- recursively
- 7) Fixed truncation of file size text displayed in the progress dialog
- 8) The shell extension used to display the context menu and the Encryption property
- page no longer needs the MFC runtime, hence it loads faster
- 9) Added images in the Windows Explorer context menus
- 10) Detailed file sizes (between braces, in bytes) in the Encryption proprety page and
- in the progress dialog are now displayed with interlaced commas
- (e.g. 1,024 Bytes for 1KB)
- 11) Now correctly preserves date/time of encrypted files
- 12) Added a shredder that can be displayed on the desktop and supports drag&drop from
- Windows Explorer, and it also can be displayed in the Send To menu
- 13) Added icon to the system tray that monitors the status of the security set
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- Interscope BlackBox 1.3
- 11th January, 1998
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- 1) Fixed a problem with different users on Windows NT
- 2) Fixed a bug causing the Start Menu not being updated during install on Windows NT
- 3) Updated FAQ
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- Interscope BlackBox 1.2
- 28th June, 1997
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- 1) Changed name from Interscope DES File Encoder/Decoder to Interscope BlackBox
- 2) Due to large number of downloads, changing licensing to shareware
- 3) Added an unistall feature
- 4) Fixed a problem with passwords, which caused some characters to be interchangable in
- user passwords (e.g. a file encrypted witch password "abc8" was possible to be decrypted
- with password "abc9")
- 5) Added context sensitive help
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- Interscope DES File Encoder/Decoder 1.0a
- 10th June, 1997
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- 1) Fixed an installation problem on Windows NT 4.0
- 2) Fixed the display of the user who encrypted a file in the Encoding file property page
- on Windows NT 4.0
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- Interscope DES File Encoder/Decoder 1.0
- 7th June, 1997
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- 1) Initial release (freeware)