Comments on: Encrypt and protect files with Encyphalon http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2009/01/04/encrypt-and-protect-files-with-encyphalon/ One great program every day, whether you need it or not Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:42:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Colin http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2009/01/04/encrypt-and-protect-files-with-encyphalon/comment-page-1/#comment-26468 Colin Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:24:56 +0000 http://www.freedownloadaday.com/?p=1748#comment-26468 The "download" website is suspended! The “download” website is suspended!

]]> By: app http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2009/01/04/encrypt-and-protect-files-with-encyphalon/comment-page-1/#comment-26440 app Wed, 21 Jan 2009 09:13:41 +0000 http://www.freedownloadaday.com/?p=1748#comment-26440 A number of years ago a friend of mine wrote a lovely little application similar to this as a project for one of his university classes, called Ligare. The major differences between Ligare and Encyphalon is that Ligare will run on old Win9x machines, and it uses a different encryption algorithm (a proprietary RC4 derivative called Celare). The receiver of the file does not need a copy of Ligare on their machine in order to decrypt files. All they need is the password. The decryptor is packed with the file and works similar to a password protected self extracting zip file, except unlike a password protected zip, if you supply the wrong password in Ligare, it won't tell you and will extract the file re-encrypted with the incorrectly supplied password. (you end up with an unusable garbage file extracted) The Ligare application and a paper about the Celare encryption algorithm are both available for free here: http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=7168.0 The developer also has a special version for visually impaired users that is available upon request, if you send him a private message through that forum. A number of years ago a friend of mine wrote a lovely little application similar to this as a project for one of his university classes, called Ligare.

The major differences between Ligare and Encyphalon is that Ligare will run on old Win9x machines, and it uses a different encryption algorithm (a proprietary RC4 derivative called Celare).

The receiver of the file does not need a copy of Ligare on their machine in order to decrypt files. All they need is the password. The decryptor is packed with the file and works similar to a password protected self extracting zip file, except unlike a password protected zip, if you supply the wrong password in Ligare, it won’t tell you and will extract the file re-encrypted with the incorrectly supplied password. (you end up with an unusable garbage file extracted)

The Ligare application and a paper about the Celare encryption algorithm are both available for free here:

http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?topic=7168.0

The developer also has a special version for visually impaired users that is available upon request, if you send him a private message through that forum.

]]> By: Liam K. http://www.freedownloadaday.com/2009/01/04/encrypt-and-protect-files-with-encyphalon/comment-page-1/#comment-26286 Liam K. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:38:23 +0000 http://www.freedownloadaday.com/?p=1748#comment-26286 I suppose you need the program on a different computer to decrypt it? Or is it self-decrypting? I suppose you need the program on a different computer to decrypt it? Or is it self-decrypting?

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