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LOCK.COM / UNLOCK.COM Documentation ------------------------
LOCK.COM is a short utility program that encrypts your files
making them unreadable by anyone who cannot supply the
correct password or phrase. It does this by mixing bits
drawn from different parts of the file, scrambling the whole
so that the result becomes complete gibberish to the
intruder. It is an easy way to get more than adequate,
medium strength security. UNLOCK.COM, LOCK.COM's companion
program, is required to decrypt the encrypted file.
LOCK and UNLOCK are regular DOS commands that accommodate
pathnames and can read from and write to different disks.
A sample of the command syntax is as follows:
LOCK B:\ARCHIVES\PAYROLL.$$$ A:MIXED.UP
In the example above example, Lock will read in the file
PAYROLL.$$$ from B:\ARCHIVES and then ask you for a phrase
to use in locking it up. Lock allows you to enter up to a
full 64-character "passphrase" when you are prompted. Lock
then scrambles the file and puts the new version into the
file A:MIXED.UP. If you don't specify a filename for the
scrambled version, LOCK will create a file named FILE.LOC in
the current subdirectory. To unlock the file, type:
UNLOCK A:MIXED.UP B:PAYROLL.$$$
and supply the SAME!! passphrase used to lock the original
file.
LOCK's only limitations are that the file it is intended to
protect must be less than 62K in length and you must use DOS
Version 2.0 or higher.
You may apply a double lock by using LOCK again on the once
scrambled file, thus squaring the ways the file could have
been scrambled. To unlock a double locked disk, just apply
the passphrases in reverse order.
CAUTION!!
Nothing is more embarrassing than securely locking a trunk
and then losing the key. So, in addition to remembering
your passphrase, make sure that you have a copy of UNLOCK
around before you put on the lock itself.
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LOCK and UNLOCK appear in the September 3, 1985, PC Magazine
article by Steve Holzner. This documentation was extracted
from that article.