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- snuffle - generic hash-based encryption and decryption programs
-
- snuffle and unsnuffle turn any good one-way hash function (such as
- Merkle's Snefru) into a reasonably fast private-key encryption method.
- You must have Snefru, or something providing the same Hash512()
- interface, for snuffle and unsnuffle to work. Past that, snuffle and
- unsnuffle should be perfectly portable.
-
- On this Sun 4, snuffle and unsnuffle encrypt between two and three times
- slower than crypt(1). However, they provide a lot more security.
-
- snuffle is public domain. Send any comments to the newsgroup sci.crypt,
- which the author reads whenever possible. I do *not* know whether
- snuffle is legally exportable; it contains no encryption technology, but
- I'm not going to try sending it outside the United States.
-
- Start by making symbolic links or copies of snefru's hash512.o,
- sboxes.o, snefru.h, and patchlevel.h in this directory. Then edit the
- options in the Makefile and compile. Read snuffle.man and you're off.
-