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From: derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Looking for encryption program for MAC
Keywords: encryption DES
Message-ID: <5308@crystal9.UUCP>
Date: 3 Dec 90 21:21:06 GMT
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nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes:

>I'm looking for a program to run on a MAC that will encrypt and/or

>The encrypted files must be able to be decrypted on IBM PCs as well as
>on MACs.  

>Ideally, it would use DES CBC encryption (CBC means Cipher Block Chaining).  
>A program that does what the **IX (Sun) DES program does would be fine.

There is a program in the archives called UTIL/DES-ENCRYPTION.HQX
but does not work on an IBM.  

FOR THE DES EXPERTS.  Will DES encoded files be decoded by any
des decoding tool?
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