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- !Help for !LCrypt Version 2.50 18-May-91
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-
- The basic routines of LUCIFER were crafted by Graven Cyphers at
- the university of Toronto, Canada, with programming assistance
- from Richard Outerbridge. It is based on the FORTRAN routines
- which concluded Arthur Sorkin's article "LUCIFER: A Cryptographic
- Algorithm", CRYPTOLOGIA, Volume 8, Number 1, January 1984, pp22-
- 42.
-
- LUCIFER is a cryptographic algorithm developed by IBM in the
- early seventies. It was a predecessor of the DES, and is much
- simpler than that algorithm. In particular, it has only two
- substitution boxes. It does, however, use a 128 bit key and
- operates on sixteen byte data blocks.
-
- It has been expanded by me to fit into the RISC-OS environment.
- To use it, start it by double-clicking. After a moment, a
- question-mark appears at the right side of the iconbar.
-
- Clicking the middle mouse-key displays a menu with 3 positions:
-
- Info: Displays informations about the version etc.
-
- SetUp: Setup allows you to distinguish, whether you want to
- de-/encypt the files in the original or in an Acorn-
- specific mode. If you choose the last, the filetype
- will be restored correctly. To restore files crypted by
- version 1.00 of !LCrypt or an original lcrypt (e.g.
- UNIX-lcrypt) you should choose the first option.
-
- Another option is to choose, if the en-/decryption
- should be done in background, whenever a NULL-event
- will be received from the Task-Manager.
-
- Quit: Removes it from the iconbar.
-
- To encrypt a file, drag it onto the icon. Enter the filename and
- a password ( !! PAY ATTENTION TO SPACES !! ) and drag the
- fileicon (type 007) to a filer.
-
- To decrypt a file, drag a '007-'File (see above) onto the icon.
- Like above, enter a password and a filename. If you choosed the
- original mode, the fileicon is always FFF (=Text), else it has
- the filetype of the original file.
-
- History:
-
- 05-May-91, 1.00 First "quick-hacked" version of !LCrypt,
- based on the routines described at the top of
- this document.
-
- 12-May-91, 2.00 Entering a wrong password would destroy the
- orignal encrypted file, so you can't restore
- the file (Well, it's possible, but very
- tricky...). So I included an extended
- 'saveas'-dialogue-box to ensure a 'safer'
- decrypting. I also removed some small bugs.
-
- 18-May-91, 2.50 Application has been modified to allow
- working as a background-task.
-
- Note: This program is free software. It is distributed in the
- hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
- without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-
- ._________________________________________________________________________.
- | |
- | Guido Thater, Koeln, Germany UUCP: skywalk@altger.de |
- | OR: gt@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de |
- | . |
- | "If architects build buildings like programmers write /| |
- | software, even a woodpecker could break a skyscraper!" /-| |
- |___________________________________________________________/ |rchimedes_|
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