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*** Hello everybody! This is the FILEENCRYPT documentation 13.09.1990
First, a fairy tale...
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Once upon a time I found on a disk with GIZMOS-tools a
FileEncryptor. It was fully equipped with gadgets and you could
REALLY enter a *TOP SECRET* password, on which your file was
operated. I was happy, because it worked so fine... Little bit
later I tried to decrypt the same file via the same program and
the same *TOP SECRET* password...
Well, the result was a half encrypted original, decorated
by several arbitrary combinations of !$%&/()s. This was really
not what I wanted...
So I wrote my own.
I put special stress on the graphics, for the AMIGA is to
the main part a visual machine, and I liked the idea of a key
talking to you with a speech-bubble, like in a comic strip.
Alas, not too many of small PublicDomain-programs use the
graphics capabilities of the AMIGA, but I hope this will
improve.
What, what is this FILEENCRYPT thing doing ?
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In simple words: it encrypts and decrypts any private file
you like, in order not to be read by younger brothers or by
anyone else in general.
How to use FileEncrypt
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This is the thing I really like, using graphics-oriented
user surfaces: The user manuals can be *VERY* short, like this
one:
'Simply use the gadgets. Period.'
Technical Annotations
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I wrote the program using AZTEC-C and I haven't tried to
compile it using Lattice. The program can be run under CLI and
Workbech as well. The source is supplied, except the parts of
en- and decryption - which should be obviously a little bit
hidden. All I'd like to admit is, that it uses the
'Kabbala-Shiva VIId' algorithm for encryption (ain't that a
*REAL* catchy name, hm ?)
Thanks to
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o Dan Silva.
If you are left alone on an island with an AMIGA and a
program of your choice it *MUST* be 'dPaint III'. The
variety of functions is really crazy. No program -
especially a painting program - is as useful as Dan's
dPaint. Without it the AMIGA would be much less. And many
other programming projects would never exist. Thank you SO
much Dan!
o Gregg Tavares, Los Angeles, California.
He wrote a really good Brush-To-Icon programm(PD), that
offers everything you need, and that never had let me down
like some others I used.
o Tim Kemp, Columbus, Ohio.
He made a wonderful Brush-To-C-Code converter(PD), without
the graphics in my program would never have been possible.
Thank you Tim, it is really easy to use.
Greetings go to:
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Simon and T.A.L. - AMIGA addicts from the early days on.
Some final distribution notes:
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Copy this program to everybody you know, share the fun we
all have with the AMIGA, but you must not receive money in
return. This program must be free.
If you want to send money: Don't. Please feel free to send
me a postcard instead. I would really like to know, to which
(distant) places of this planet my programm has gone so far.
This program must not be added to a commercial package
without my written permission.
My address is:
Lorenz Wiest
Roentgenweg 12
D-7958 Laupheim
Germany