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- Diskette Cryptographic Utility
- Copyright (C) 1991 by Modtech System 1991
- All rights reserved
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- Modtech System 725-0922 Office
- Room 6, 11th floor (852) 386-9299 Fax
- Cheung Fat Commercial Building
- 266-268 Cheung Sha Wan Road
- Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Abstract
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- DCU is an utility for transforming a plain readable diskette
- to cipherdisk ( unreadable diskette ) by making use of cipher key.
- The purpose of this utility is to keep sensitive material secure
- while the material is stored on a diskette. Such material is not
- necessarily be stored as a file, i.e. it can be stored within
- diskette sector (512 byte) regardless of structure.
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- DCU is an encryption and also a decryption program. If user can
- provide the correct cipher key, DCU will decrypher a cipherdisk
- (which is enciphered by DCU with the same cipher key) to a plaindisk.
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- Using DCU
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- If you intend to distribute sensitive diskette, you can use DCU
- to produce a cipherdisk for delivery (be sure the one receiving
- the cipherdisk has DCU and knows your cipher key).
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- Producing a cipherdisk is just like a copy procedure. You should
- specify the drive containing your original diskette (copy-
- protected) and the target drive inserted with a new diskette (DCU will
- format the destination diskette). If only one floppy drive is used,
- DCU will prompt you to swap between source and destination diskette.
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- Commercial Edition users who have only one floppy drive can use overflow
- buffer (hard disk, expanded memory or extended memory) to facilitate
- the process by reducing swapping source/desintation diskettes.
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- Shareware Edition users who have only one floppy drive can duplicate the
- diskette first and then enciphering the copy (setting no swap and
- no format).
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- General features of DCU :
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- 1. DCU must be run on IBM AT or compatible under DOS 2.1 or above with
- base memory 640K. DCU requires buffer size 20 or above as specified
- in the file CONFIG.SYS. Ensure that no TSR program and BIOS or DOS
- interrupts are modified before using DCU.
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- 2. DCU supports all four common diskette formats (512 bytes sector).
- Enciphering will be done on the entire diskette. Use the same key
- while enciphering or deciphering the diskette.
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- 3. Parameters are passed to program via command line, i.e. specified
- immediately after the programe name 'DCUSW' - shareware edition or
- 'DCUCE' - commercial edition :
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- a. Source Disk - 'S=x', x must be 'A' or 'B'
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- b. Destination Disk - 'D=x', x must be 'A' or 'B', this parameter
- is optional. If destination disk is not
- specified, it is assumed that the destination
- disk is using same drive as the source disk.
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- c. Cipher Key - 'K=x', x must be 'a..Z' of 1-16 characters.
- lower case character will be converted to
- upper case.
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- d. Overflow - 'O=x', this parameter is optional, if overflow
- (DCUCE only) is not specified, DCU will use default buffer
- (9K) to handle overflow.
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- x must be 'C', 'D', 'E' or 'X' :
- 'C' indicates hard disk C:
- 'D' indicates hard disk D:
- 'E' indicates Expanded Memory
- 'X' indicates Extended Memory
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- 4. Some parameters can be passed to DCU by environment strings,
- i.e. use SET command at DOS prompt. Please be aware that there
- is no space prefix and postfix of the equal sign '=' :
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- a. 'SET KEY=xxxxx' to set cipher key 'xxxxx'.
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- b. 'SET FORMAT=N' to turn off diskette format action if the
- destination disk is already formatted. The
- default format action is on. However, users
- should make sure that the formatted destination
- disk is at the same format, it is possible
- for a source 360K transfer to 1.2M but at the
- wrong disk structure. This will render the
- decipher disk unaccessable. If you are not sure
- of the format of destination disk, please set
- format to ON or simply omit this statement.
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- c. 'SET SWAP=N' to turn off swap disk action while the source
- disk is also the destination disk. The default
- of swap disk is on.
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- d. 'SET BUFFER=x' to indicate the usage of buffer 'x' to handle
- overflow (for Commercial Edition only).
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- Source disk and cipher key must be entered and the other parameters
- are optional.
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- Example : DCUSW s=a d=b k=why - read disk in drive A: and write
- ciphertext to disk in drive B:
- with key 'WHY'
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- DCUCE s=a k=apple - read disk in drive A: and write
- o=e ciphertext back to disk in drive
- A with key 'APPLE'. Expanded memory
- is used as overflow buffer.
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- USE OF Diskette Cryptographic Utility
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- The Diskette Crytographic Utility is distributed as shareware
- for home use, but must be licensed for use within a business,
- corporation, or organization. This includes educational institutions
- and government agencies.
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- If you are a shareware distributor you may distribute this Utility
- but may not charge more than a reasonable disk copying fee.
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- Registration for Diskette Crytographic Utility
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- Registration is required for the use of the Diskette Crytographic
- Utility in a home environment. If you are satisfied with the Diskette
- Crytographic Utility, please fill in the registration form below and
- mail to us together with the registration fee.
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- Registered users of the Diskette Crytographic Utility shall receive
- free technical support and assistance from Modtech System as well as free
- upgrades for their registered Diskette Crytographic Utility programs for
- a period of one year after registration.
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- Corporate, business and organizational users require a site license
- for the use of the Diskette Crytographic Utility Programs.
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- 29 August 1991
- (File DCU.DOC)
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