Guillotine <guill@xmission.com> writes:
Greetings fellow Cyphers...
I guess that doesn't include me, but greetings anyway.
I'm creating a new _text_ cryptography program.
Will a user be able to uuencode a binary file and pretend that it's text?
The encryption algorithm, using a symmetrical is going to be as strong as legally allowed,
Better hurry - there are no legal restrictions in the U.S. on how hard you can make it for internal use, but that may change soon.
and after copyrighting the program,
It's copyrighted the moment you've written it. Some people spend $10 on registering their copyright with the Library of Congress. You can even file your source code there.
I'm going to release the source code and explain everything about it (since it can be reverse engineered anyways).
That's a commendable idea. However if your program will use reasonable strng encryption, you should talk to a knowledgeable lawyer before publishing it in a way which might be construed as "exporting" it.
The reason I'm sending this e-mail to you is my request for more knowledge, and if you're like me, then you have an extreme thirst for knowledge!
You sound like you could use some. [snip]
I was going to call the program AlphaNumeric Encryption, but that says pretty much nothing... I might just call it something like Cipher Pad (or Cypher Pad if nobody cares that I use "cypher") , since it's only for text encryption. If you have a better idea for a name for this program, then please suggest it to me.
How about "One-Time Sanitary Pad"? (Note to the list: I have been having little problems indeed (some of my systems hacks for OS/2 no longer working under Microsquish) but they're almost entirely fixed or rewritten now. Microsquish sucks indeed. I'm glad I have a backup OS/2 box.) --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps