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- From: Krunchie <95155580@brookes.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: What Compression Program to use
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 01:09:40 GMT
- Organization: Digital Dynamics Unlimited
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- Norman Bullen <nbullen@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >dave robbins wrote:
- >>
- >> What compression program does everyone use too help encrypt the exe
- >> files to keep prying eyes away with binary editors? I'm not real crazy
- >> about paying the $275.00 dollars that PKware whants for theirs, shareware
- >> compression program would be fine.
- >>
- >> ---
- >> Dave Robbins drobbins@servtech.com
- >> Utica NY
- >I think you have the wrong idea about compression. Compression is used to
- >make files smaller for easier transmission, whether across dial-up or
- >network or via floppy disk or even CD-ROM. In order to use the files, you
- >have to decompress them and then they are exactly the way they were
- >before compression and just as accessible to "prying eyes" with "binary
- >editors."
-
- I think you have mis-understood this person's request which seems to be
- one for a program this compresses and encrypts files. One example of this
- is the ultra secure PGP.
-
- I have written an encryption utility that compresses a file then encrypts
- it use IDEA encryption (its called NCrypt V5.0). It does not conform to
- military standards (i.e. utra secure file deletion, erasure of memory
- contents etc.) but is good enough for the average citizen with nothing to
- hide from the government.
- It just has one bug to iron out and then it is available to anyone who
- wants it.
-
- The reason for the compression is that it reduces the redundancy in the
- data which cryptologists use as weakness to crack encryption methods.
-
-
- Krunchie
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