ITP: bcrypt -- Cross platform file encryption utility using blowfish

Jari Aalto jari.aalto@cante.net
Mon Feb 27 18:04:00 GMT 2006


What's the policy for distributing crypto programs with Cygwin?
Here is one that is include din Debian and is cross platform (you
can move file from Linux to Cygwin).

Jari

sdesc: "Cross platform file encryption utility using blowfish"
ldesc: "A cross platform file encryption utility. Encrypted files
are portable across all supported operating systems and processors. In
addition to encrypting your data, bcrypt will by default overwrite the
original input file with random garbage three times before deleting it
in order to thwart data recovery attempts by persons who may gain
access to your computer. Bcrypt uses the blowfish encryption algorithm
published by Bruce Schneier in 1993."
category: Security
requires: cygwin

1) manual download

  wget        \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/bcrypt/bcrypt-1.1-1.tar.bz2 \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/bcrypt/bcrypt-1.1-1-src.tar.bz2.sig \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/bcrypt/bcrypt-1.1-1-src.tar.bz2 \
    http://cygwin.cante.net/bcrypt/setup.hint

2) automated; get.sh will print futher instructions

  gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 955A92D8

  mkdir bcrypt ; cd bcrypt
  rm -f get.sh get.sh.sig
  wget    http://cygwin.cante.net/bcrypt/get.sh \
          http://cygwin.cante.net/bcrypt/get.sh.sig
  gpg --verify get.sh.sig get.sh &&
  sh get.sh




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