LOOKING FOR: MS-DOS utilities for cryptanalysis. WHY ON EARTH WOULD I WANT SUCH A THING? I'm analyzing a piece of encryption shareware advertised on comp.archives.msdos.announce. The author proudly claims that: "The algorithm used was developped independently of any literature on the subject of data encryption. The author hasn't read any texts on this subject and any ressemblance that may or may not exist between this algorithm and any previous algorithms is purely coincidental." He charges $15.00 for it too... One of those "secret algorithm" deals... PARTICULAR TOOLS I'D USEFUL... - A binary file editor/composer with hex and ascii displays - A tool for generating and viewing letter frequencies, digram/ trigram frequencies I've been able to get by with stuff I have lying around and quick programs I written as needed. But it sure would be nice if there were some slick utilities made for the job! I looked on soda in pub/cypherpunks/cryptanalysis and found nothing useful. If anyone has anything like this, please, *please* upload it to soda... Thanx... -the Cire