Windows 32-Bit Gallery/Windows 32-bit Gallery.iso/win95/crypedit/readme.txt

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Thank you for your interest in CrypEdit(TM) for Windows.


 *** REGISTERING CRYPEDIT ***

     You can register CrypEdit by sending in the order form which you can
print from CrypEdit's help file, OR you can register online on CompuServe.
To register online on CompuServe: sign-on, type GO SWREG, select REGISTER,
and search for CrypEdit as a keyword, (CrypEdit version 4.0 for Windows 3.1
has a SWREG Registration ID=4332), enter your name and shipping address...
you will be billed by CompuServe; you should recieve your registered copy
within 10 business days after registering online on CompuServe.


 *** FILES INCLUDED ***

  (NOTE: the Windows 3.1 version is denoted by CEDWE and the Windows
     NT version is denoted by CE32N)

Windows 95 ?  If your beta version of Windows 95 does not let CrypEdit
for Windows NT (32 bit) rename files then run the Windows 3.1 version
of CrypEdit which uses 16 bit file functions and will work.

Files included for the REGISTERED VERSION are:
     ThankYou.Txt (this file)
     CrypEdit.Exe
     CrypEdit.Hlp

Files included for the SHAREWARE VERSION are:
     CEDWE40L.Zip  or CE32N40L.Zip which were Zipped with PK Zip
version 1.x or 2.x and include these files:
          ReadMe.Txt      (this file)
          CrypEdit.Exe    (the Windows 3.1 or Windows NT executable)
          CrypEdit.Hlp
          Vendor.Txt (shareware distribution file)

   OR

     CEDWE40L.Exe  or CE32N40L.Exe which were Zipped with PK Zip
version 1.x or 2.x and then made into self extracting pkzip files
which include these files:
          ReadMe.Txt (this file)
          CrypEdit.Exe    (the Windows 3.1 or Windows NT executable)
          CrypEdit.Hlp
          Vendor.Txt (shareware distribution file)


    *** INSTALLING THE PROGRAM ***

    Copy the compressed distribution file to your desired directory on
whatever media/disk.  It is suggested to copy these files to your windows
directory, which is usually C:\Windows.
     Execute the PKUnZip program on the PK Zip file, or execute the
executable self-extracting PK Zip file, whichever you may have;
then delete the orginal PK Zipped file.
     Start Windows, if it is not already started, by executing the
Win command.
     Now you can either use the file manager to display the CrypEdit.Exe
program file within one of its windows and then double click on the
CrypEdit.Exe program file to execute the program, or add CrypEdit to
one of your Program Manager Groups.  To add CrypEdit to one of your
Program Manager Groups: first select and enable the Program Manager
Group that you want to add CrypEdit to.  Now use the Program
Manager's file menu "New" option, and specify "New Program Item".
The Program Item Properties dialog box comes up and you can input a
description, command line, working directory, and a short cut key.  The
easiest way to complete this action, assuming you have copied all of the
distribution files to the Windows directory, is to click on the BROWSE
button, double click on the CrypEdit.Exe file and then click on the OK
button.  The CrypEdit icon should now appear in the enabled Program
Manager Group and all you have to do from now on to use the program is
double click on that icon!


 **********   Overview of CrypEdit   **********

    CrypEdit is a menu driven Windows program that provides users
with a secure environment to edit, view, and print multiple encrypted
or plain text files while also enabling users to UU encode or decode,
compress or expand, secure delete, and encrypt or decrypt DOS
compatible files of any size.  CrypEdit utilizes pseudo one time pad
encryption which requires two different passwords 7 to 20
characters/bytes in length.  On-line documentation is provided
through a Windows 3.1 compatible help file which is almost an exact
copy of the printed manual.  Optimized versions of CrypEdit are
available for Windows 3.1, and Windows NT.

ENCRYPTION IS A VERY IMPORTANT SAFETY AND SECURITY TOOL.
You should encrypt any information that you want to remain private,
information that has any value, and any information that could be
harmful to you or your company if it ended up in the wrong computer.
Presume that your computer or data diskette and the software and data
within or on it will get stolen or lost someday.  What can other people
do with the information within the computer or on the diskette?  Your
phone book, financial information, investment portfolios, the businesse's
plan(s), e-mail, modem logon scripts and passwords, source code,
your latest novel,... awesome digitized pictures of your significant
other(s) would now be in the hands of someone else!  In just a matter
of minutes that information would be out of your control.  It could
be copied, sold, and used to drain your financial accounts, charge
your credit cards, trade your portfolios, use your business plan(s),
read or send your e-mail, log onto the network at work with your
access signature and permissions, log onto some OnLine service(s) to
use all the really expensive services and charge items from
electronic malls to your account, compile your source code, copy your
latest novel,... and view the awesome digitized pictures of your
significant other(s)!  By the time you got home, or back to the hotel
room or car, to discover that your computer was stolen your life
could be changed significantly.  The information age has brought us
communications and convenience at light speed, your life can also be
changed at light speed, so be smart and encrypt your valuable and
sensitive information so that it can't be used or viewed without
your control.  Encrypting your information with CrypEdit is the
security equivalent of locking it in a safe that could survive a
direct thermonuclear blast!

The ability to load, edit, view, print, and save any normal or
encrypted text editor file ensures that all of the encrypted text
files the user wants to be private remain private except to those
people who know the two passwords the user used to encrypt those files.
Maximum privacy and security is ensured by creating a text editor file
with CrypEdit and then always saving it as an encrypted text editor
file.  This ensures that the text editor file never resided on any
storage media unprotected, (not encrypted).  Allowing the user to send
DOS compatible text files through "public networks" such as the
Internet or "common carriers" and be assured a maximum level of
security.  Encrypted text editor files can be saved normal,
compressed, compressed and UU encoded, or UU encoded by one simple
menu command.  The secure delete command is included so the user can
be sure the file they delete is deleted.

Built in UU encoding utilities will UU encode and decode any file, split
up a UU encoded file into as many as 100 parts, and reconstruct a
split up UU encoded file so that 8 bit data files can be transferred
over systems limited to 7 data bit format as a single file or split-up
UU encoded files.  Speed and size optimized file compression are
provided so the user can compress files to save storage media space or
to minimize data transfer time from computer to computer.
The multiple document/window text editor enables users to delete, cut,
copy, paste, search for, search and replace (when search is used in
combination with paste), and move text (when cut is used in combination
with paste); it also supports "word wrap" so that users don't have to
type a carriage return at the end of each line, which makes
the conversion of text files to, or from, most word processor file
formats much easier.

YOUR PRIVACY IN COMMUNCATIONS IS ANOTHER ISSUE.  DON'T BE FOOLISH,
PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY NOW !  The Supreme Court and the government of the
United States to this date have made no ruling or legislation to ensure
that electronic data, E-Mail, or electronic documents are guaranteed
privacy.  In fact in France, and many other foreign countries, it is
illegal for any private citizen to encrypt their electronic data, the
privacy privilege is reserved for someone else!  To insure the privacy
of your text documents, E-Mail, or data files... Use CrypEdit.

NOTE: some file encryption and decryption programs use only one, or more,
password(s) of any non-zero length and return an error value to the
calling program or the operating system when the improper password(s)
is(are) used.  This implies that there must be some whole, part, or
derivative of the password within their encrypted file which might allow
people to use password generation programs to test, or use every possible
password, until the file decrypts; or even worse "secret backdoor options"
(secret options within the program that allow those people who know about
them to use them) to decrypt a file without even knowing or entering the
passwords!  I know, I have written and used password generation programs
to defeat password protection.  The CrypEdit encryption scheme uses two
case sensitive passwords of at least seven characters that must be
different.  It also DOES NOT return any specific value for failing or
successful use of passwords or program.  There is absolutely no information
within the encrypted file that is any whole, part, or derivative of either
password (except the encrypted data of course), and there are no
"backdoors" or methods to decrypt the file without the original passwords.
Additionally, you can save up to 1024 characters of notes, or riddles, with
each encrypted file to remind you, or help whomever determine, what the
passwords are.