Bear with me, all. I am on my first cup of coffee. At 9:40 AM 12/23/94, Eric Hughes wrote:

Does anybody here know jack about Norton Encrypt?

Well, I do have qualms about this, but I am assuming/hoping the original poster doesn't know what they are doing and wanted an answer like "Look in resource #164, dood" (call me a bleeding heart). Norton Encrypt for the Mac does have major problems. Key handling is botched such that the keyspace is significantly less than the full 56 bits specified, through what looks like a combination of inept implementation and perhaps outright bugs. I don't remember all the details, but I think NE converts to all lower case or some such, and discards anything past 8 characters of passphrase. There is a file on one of the crypto sites about NE. I would direct anyone interested to dig around some. -j, whose next pasttime this morning is helping con artists swindle old folks.

Eric

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