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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.
._________________________________________________________________________.
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| 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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