[ITP] ccrypt: A utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams

[Stipe Tolj]

Andreas Seidl wrote:
> 
> I would like to contribute and maintain ccrypt:
> 
> * http://quasar.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~selinger/ccrypt/  (Homepage)
> * http://quasar.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~selinger/ccrypt/download/ccrypt-1.6.tar.gz
>                                                        (Download)
> 
> Obtaining this package for review:
> 
> wget http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin/release/ccrypt/ccrypt-1.6-1-src.tar.bz2
> wget http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin/release/ccrypt/ccrypt-1.6-1.tar.bz2
> wget http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin/release/ccrypt/setup.hint
> 
> Alternatively, this package can be downloaded and installed through
> setup.exe by adding http://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de/~seidl/cygwin to your
> server list.
> 
> ----- setup.hint -----
> sdesc: "A utility for encrypting and decrypting files and streams"
> category: Utils
> requires: cygwin
> ldesc: "ccrypt is a utility for encrypting and decrypting files and
> streams. It was designed as a replacement for the standard unix crypt
> utility, which is notorious for using a very weak encryption
> algorithm. ccrypt is based on the Rijndael cipher, which is the
> U.S. government's chosen candidate for the Advanced Encryption
> Standard (AES, see http://www.nist.gov/aes/). This cipher is believed
> to provide very strong security.
> 
> Unlike unix crypt, the algorithm provided by ccrypt is not symmetric,
> i.e., one must specify whether to encrypt or decrypt. The most common
> way to invoke ccrypt is via the commands ccencrypt and
> ccdecrypt. There is also a ccat command for decrypting a file directly
> to the terminal, thus reducing the likelihood of leaving temporary
> plaintext files around. In addition, there is a compatibility mode for
> decrypting legacy unix crypt files. An emacs mode is also supplied for
> editing encrypted text files."
> ----- end -----

the packages has my +1 vote to go.

Stipe

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