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- From: coar@Nephi.Enet.DEC.Com (Rodent of Unusual Size)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: CRYPT for VMS?
- Summary: See your sales rep about VAX Encryption software
- Keywords: VAX Encryption
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.180554.27585@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 18:58:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul20.165157.26513@av8r.uucp>, mrandall@av8r.uucp (Mark Randall) writes...
- >
- >This reminds me of a little question that's been on my mind for a
- >while - VMS help shows a utility called ENCRYPT. When examined
- >further, help says that it's an optional utility that hasn't been
- >installed.
- >
- >Does anyone know anything about this?
-
- The software product name is VAX Encryption, and the latest version is
- V1.2.
-
- > I get the consolidated software
- >distribution, but I've never seen this add-on.
-
- It is under U.S. export control (i.e., it's easy to get IFF you're
- in the U.S. or Canada), so you won't see it on the CDs. You have to
- special-order it explicitly.
-
- > If it IS out there,
- >does it conform to DES or any other well-recognized encryption
- >standard?
-
- VAX Encryption is a software implementation of DES, complete with API. It
- also has a file authentication function that uses the strong cryptographic
- checksumming potential of DES, so you can use it to check, with high
- confidence, whether files have been munged.
-
- Contact your DEC sales rep for more information. Ask for it by name..
-
- >Mark Randall Heebidy -
- >mrandall@av8r.uucp ***** POOF *****
-
- #ken :-)} Jeratol the Chaotic
-
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