19.5.1. DOS and Windows
- SecureDevice
+ SecureDrive
- "Secdrv13d is the latest version. There was an unupdated
.exe file in the package that had to be fixed. From the
readme file: If you found this file inside FPART13D.ZIP,
this is an update and bug fix for the FPART utility of
SecureDrive Release 1.3d,
- Edgar Swank involved?
+ SecureDevice
- Major Versions:
- Functions:
- Principal Authors:
- Major Platforms:
+ Where to Find:
- ftp://ftp.csn.org/mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_???????/
secdrv/secdev.arj
See ftp://ftp.csn.org/mpj/README.MPJ for the ???????
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
+ Notes:
- By the way, I'm not the only one who gets SecureDrive
and SecureDevice confused. Watch out for this.
+ SFS
- "A MS-DOS-based package for hard disk encryption. It is
implemented as a device driver and encrypts a whole
partition (i.e., not a file or a directory). It uses the
MDC/SHA cipher. ... It is available from Grabo
(garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/crypt/sfs110.zip, I think), and also
from our ftp site: ftp.informatik.uni-
hamburg.de:/pub/virus/crypt/disk/sfs110.zip I would
recommend the Garbo site, because ours is a bit slow."
[Vesselin Bontchev, alt.security.pgp, 1994-09-05]
- Compared to SecureDrive, users report it to be faster,
better-featured, has a Windows interface, is a device
driver, and is robust. The disadvantages are that it
currently does not ship with source code and uses a more
obscure cipher.
- "SFS (Secure FileSystem) is a set of programs which
create and manage a number of encrypted disk volumes, and
runs under both DOS and Windows. Each volume appears as
a normal DOS drive, but all data stored on it is encryped
at the individual-sector level....SFS 1.1 is a
maintenance release which fixes a few minor problems in
1.0, and adds a number of features suggested by users.
More details on changes are given in in the README file."
[Peter Gutmann, sci.crypt, 1994-08-25]
- "from garbo.uwasa.fi and all its mirror sites worldwide
as /pc/crypt/sfs110.zip."
+ WinCrypt.
- "WinCrypt is pretty good IF you keep your encrypted text
to less than the length of your password, AND IF you
generate your password randomly, AND IF you only use each
password ONCE. :-)" [Michael Paul Johnson, sci.crypt,
1994-07-08]
+ Win PGP
+ there seem to be two identically-named programs:
- WinPGP, by Christopher w. Geib
+ WinPGP, by Timothy M. Janke and Geoffrey C. Grabow
- ftp WinPGP 1.0 from
oak.oakland.edu//pub/msdos/windows3/WinPGP10.ZIP
- Until this is clarified...
+ PGPShell
- "PGPShell v3.2 has been released and is available at
these sites: (U.S.)
oak.oakland.edu:/pub/msdos/security/pgpshe32.zip
(Euro)
ftp.demon.co.uk:/simtel20/msdos/security/pgpshe32.zip
[still@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Johannes Kepler), 1994-07-
07]
+ PGS
- ftp.informatik.uni-
hamburg.de:/pub/virus/crypt/pgp/shells/pgs099b.zip
- "I just uploaded the bug fix of PGS (v0.99b) on some FTP-
sites:
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/msdos_uploads/pgs/pgs099b.zip
rzsun2.informatik.uni-hamburg.de:/pub/virus/crypt/pgp/...
(Just uploaded it, should be on in a few days)
oak.oakland.edu:/SimTel/msdos/security/pgs099b.zip (Just
uploaded it, should be on in a few days)
[Eelco Cramer <crame001@hio.tem.nhl.nl>, 1994-06-27]
+ DOS disk encryption utilities
+ Several free or nearly free utilities are available:
- ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de:/pub/virus/crypt/disk/
[Vesselin Vladimirov Bontchev, as of 1994-08]
+ Norton's "Diskreet" is weak and essentially useless
- uses DES in weak (ECB) mode...is probably the "snake
oil" that Zimmermann writes about in his docs. SFS docs
say it is even worse than that.
+ PGS
- "PGS v0.99c is out there!
This new version of PGS supports 8 bytes keyid's.
This version will be able to run in a OS/2 DOS box.
PGS v0.99c is available on the following site:
wuarchive.wustl.edu:/pub/msdos_uploads/pgs/pgs099c.zip"
[ER CRAMER <crame001@hio.tem.nhl.nl>, 1994-07-08]
+ Program:
- Major Versions:
- Functions:
- Principal Authors:
- Major Platforms:
- Where to Find:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
- Notes:
19.5.2. OS/2
19.5.3. Amiga
+ Program: PGPAmiga, Amiga PGP
+ Major Versions: 2.3a.4, PGP 2.6
- "The Amiga equivalent of PGP 2.6ui is called PGP
2.3a.3" [unknown commenter]
- Functions:
- Principal Authors:
- Major Platforms:
- Where to Find:
- Strengths:
- Weaknesses:
- Notes: Situation is confusing. 2.3a.3 is not equivalent
to PGP 2.6ui.
19.5.4. Unix
- NeXTStep
- Sun 4.3
- Solaris
- HP
- SGI
+ swIPe
- Metzger: It was John Ioannidis' swIPe package, and it was
not merely announced
but released. Phil has done a similar package for KA9Q
and was one of
19.5.5. SFS ?
- "A MS-DOS-based package for hard disk encryption. It is
implemented as a device driver and encrypts a whole
partition (i.e., not a file or a directory). It uses the
MDC/SHA cipher. ... It is available from Grabo
(garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/crypt/sfs110.zip, I think), and also
from our ftp site: ftp.informatik.uni-
hamburg.de:/pub/virus/crypt/disk/sfs110.zip I would
recommend the Garbo site, because ours is a bit slow."
[Vesselin Bontchev, alt.security.pgp, 1994-09-05]
19.5.6. Macintosh
+ more on MacPGP
- From: phinely@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Peter Hinely)
Subject: Re: MacPGP 2.6ui doesn't actually work
Message-ID: <CsI3wr.I3B@news.Hawaii.Edu>
Sender: news@news.Hawaii.Edu
Organization: University of Hawaii
References: <m0qJqLD-001JKsC@sunforest.mantis.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 04:17:15 GMT
Lines: 9
In article <m0qJqLD-001JKsC@sunforest.mantis.co.uk>
mathew@stallman.mantis.co.uk (mathew at home) writes:
>Well, I downloaded the rumoured MacPGP 2.6ui, but sadly
it bombs out
>immediately with an address error when I try to run it.
MacPGP 2.6ui works on my Quadra 605.
The MacBinary process cannot handle pathnames >63
characters, but as long
an you encrypt files on the desktop, it's not too much of
a problem.
- From: warlord@MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp
Subject: Re: When will there be a bug fix for MacPGP?
Followup-To: alt.security.pgp
Date: 6 Jul 1994 10:19:13 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <WARLORD.94Jul6061917@toxicwaste.mit.edu>
References: <AWILSON-020794082446@ts7-57.upenn.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: toxicwaste.media.mit.edu
In-reply-to: AWILSON@DRUNIVAC.DREW.EDU's message of 2 Jul
1994 12:25:14 GMT
In article <AWILSON-020794082446@ts7-57.upenn.edu>
AWILSON@DRUNIVAC.DREW.EDU (AL WILSON) writes:
When will there be a bug fix for MacPGP (1.1.1)? I am
not complaining, I
know that the software is free. I just want to start
utilizing it for
communications at the earliest possible time.
There are still a number of outstanding bugs that need to
be
fixed, but the hope is to make a bugfix release in the
near
future. I don't know when that is going to be, but
hopefully
it will be Real Soon Now (TM).
- Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 10:42:08 -0700
From: tcmay (Timothy C. May)
To: tcmay
Subject: (fwd) Re: What is the difference between 2.6 &
2.6ui?
Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp
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From: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Newsgroups: alt.security.pgp
Subject: Re: What is the difference between 2.6 & 2.6ui?
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 1994 10:14:24 GMT
Organization: Linux Unlimited
Lines: 55
Message-ID:
<1994Jul6.101424.9203.chiark.ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu>
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<RATINOX.94Jul3221136@delphi.ccs.neu.edu>
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Summary: Use 2.6ui :-).
Originator: iwj10@bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
In article <RATINOX.94Jul3221136@delphi.ccs.neu.edu>,
Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
>Ed Dantes <edantes@crash.cts.com> writes [quoting
normalised - iwj]:
>> subject line says it all.
>
>PGP 2.6 is distributed from MIT and is legally available
to US and Canadian
>residents. It uses the RSAREF library. It has code that
will prevent
>interoperation with earlier versions of PGP.
>
>PGP 2.6ui is a modified version of PGP 2.3a which
functions almost
>identically to MIT PGP 2.6, without the "cripple code"
of MIT PGP 2.6. It
>is legally available outside the US and Canada only.
This is false. PGP 2.6ui is available to US and Canadian
residents.
It is definitely legal for such people to download PGP
2.6ui and study
it.
However, RSADSI claim that *using* PGP 2.6ui in the US
and Canada
violates their patents on the RSA algorithm and on public
key
cryptography in general. Other people (like myself)
believe that
these patents wouldn't stand up if tested in court, and
that in any
case the damages recoverable would be zero.
You might also like to know that the output formats
generated by 2.6ui
and MIT-2.6 are identical, so that if you choose to use
2.6ui in North
America noone will be able to tell the difference anyway.
Unfortunately these patent problems have caused many
North American
FTP sites to stop carrying 2.3a and 2.6ui, for fear of
committing
contributory infringement.
If you would like to examine PGP 2.3a or 2.6ui, they are
available on
many FTP sites. Try
black.ox.ac.uk:/src/security
ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/pgp
ftp.dsi.unimi.it:/pub/security/crypt/PGP
ftp.funet.fi:/pub/crypt
for starters. Look out for the regular postings here in
alt.security.pgp for other sites.
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6GKY5RW
SZ1/YLmshlDEMgeab4pSLSz+lDvsox2KFxQkP7O3oWYnswXcdr4FdLBu/
TXU+IQw
E4r/jY/IXSupP97Lxj9BB73TkJIHVmrqgoPQG2Nszj60cbE/LsiGs5uMn
CSESypH
c0Y8FnR64gc=
=Pejo
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Higher Power: 2^859433 | Public Key: PGP and MailSafe
available.
"National borders are just speed bumps on the information
superhighway."
+ CurveEncrypt, for Mac
- "Curve Encrypt 1.1, IDEA encryption for the Macintosh is
now available.....Curve Encrypt is a freeware drag-and-
drop encryption application for the Macintosh. It uses
IDEA cipher-feedback mode with a 255 character pass
phrase, encrypts both the data and resource forks of
files, and will encrypt the contents of a folder or
volume in a single operation. Source code is provided,
natch. CE is System 7 only....(Note that this program has
nothing whatsoever to do with elliptic curve
encryption methods, just so nobody gets confused...)" [
"W. Kinney" <kinney@bogart.Colorado.EDU>, 1994-07-08]
- "Ftp Sites:
ripem.msu.edu:pub/crypt/other/curve-encrypt-idea-for-mac/
This is an export controlled ftp site: read
pub/crypt/GETTING_ACCESS for
information.
ftp.csn.org:/mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_???????/curve_e
ncrypt/
csn.org is also export-controlled: read /mpj/README for
the characters
to replace ???????." [ "W. Kinney"
<kinney@bogart.Colorado.EDU>, 1994-07-08]
+ RIPEM on Macintosh
- Carl Ellison says "I've only used RIPEM on AOL -- but it
should be the same....I run on a Mac, generating the
armored file, and then use AOL's "paste from file" option
in the File menu to include the encrypted file in the
body of my message.....In the other direction, I have to
use Select All and Copy to get it out of AOL mail, Paste
to get it into an editor. From there I can file it and
give that file to PGP or RIPEM.....BBEDIT on the Mac has
good support for RIPEM. I wish I knew how to write
BBEDIT extensions for Mac PGP as well." [C.E., 1994-07-
06]
+ URL for Stego (Macintosh)
- http://www.nitv.net/~mech/Romana/stego.html
19.5.7. Newton
19.5.8. Atari
19.5.9. VMS
19.5.10. IBM VM/etc.
19.5.11. Miscellaneous
19.5.12. File-splitting utilities
+ Several exist.
- XSPLIT
- cryptosplit, Ray Cromwell
- shade
By Tim May, see README
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