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- sCrypt
- Encrypting editor
- Version 0.4.
-
- • Keep a secret diary.
- • Compatible with Crypt - a desk scrap encryptor.
-
- © Tim Molteno 1994. All rights reserved. sCrypt 0.4 is Freeware. Give copies to
- your friends.
-
- What is sCrypt™ ?
-
- sCrypt™ is a simple freeware Macintosh™ editor with an encrypting feature. It is
- designed for encryption tasks like writing personal email and keeping a diary. To
- encrypt some text, one first chooses a key which is any string of alphanumeric
- characters. Then simply type or paste the text into sCrypt™, set the key, and choose
- the encrypt command from the encrypt menu. The encrypted data is also in text
- format and is automatically copied into the clipboard. To mail the encrypted text,
- one simply opens a mail package (like Eudora) and pastes the encrypted text.
-
- For pure mail encrypting tasks, Crypt (also Freeware) is a better choice but is has
- no editing features.
-
- System Requirements
-
- • System 6 or later.
- • Uses 256 k (can be reduced to 64k if you are encrypting text only)
-
- Installation.
-
- Put sCrypt in your applications folder.
-
- Simple Instructions to ENCRYPT
-
- • Type in the text, or load a TEXT file using OPEN.
- • Set your KEY using the set key command
- • Choose the ENCRYPT menu command
- • The encrypted text (cyphertext) appears in your window.
-
- Simple Instructions to DECRYPT
-
- • COPY the encrypted TEXT and past it into sCrypt.
- Remember to include the header whch reads "(TEXT Encrypted with Crypt 0.4.0)"
- when you copy the encrypted data. Include the brackets too.
- • Set your KEY using the set key command
- • Choose the DECRYPT menu command
- • The original text (plaintext) appears in your window.
- • If the encrypted object was a picture, a preview window will appear and you must
- PASTE the picture into a suitable application. sCrypt does not support pictures (yet :).
-
- Crypt's encryption system is compatible with Crypt 0.4, a desk scrap encryptor, and
- also with secretDiary -- a program for keeping a diary on your mac. It is not
- compatible with earlier versions. Fortunately there are not too many of these around !
-
- Any comments/suggestions/questions please email me at tim@physics.otago.ac.nz.
- If you'd like to port this application to another system, then contact me for
- technical information.
-
-
- Future Improvements
-
- • Teach sCrypt to have some simple picture editing features.
- • An info region containing the size of the scrap.
- • Include 'styl' information on the scrap.
- • Windows and UNIX Versions. The core is very portable.
- • Deal with AOCE scrap formats.