Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 13:25:38 -0600 (MDT) From: Ryan Snyder--Consultant <cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu> I am trying to crack a textfile which has been encrypted with a program (for the IBM) called CRYPT. Can anyone help me with a method, a program which will break it, or a pointer to more information on how I might go about it? Thanks in advance.

This reminds me of cwb, I think, or else it's cbw (stands for codebreaker's workbench), that is supposedly a tool for breking crypt-ed text. I tried to make this tool work a couple of times, and never got it working. One fellow I corresponded with said it worked for him right out of the box. I eventually decided that it didn't work for me at least partly because it was too dependent on the vt220 display. I never actually ran it on a vt220. Did anyone ever do any work to improve cbw (or cwb)? Everyone is always saying what a joke crypt is, but I've never been able to crack it with anything I got on the net. What do people really use to break (BSD) crypted text? tw