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java.lang.Object | +----java.lang.Thread | +----cryptix.tools.Scar
Uses java.zip tools to deflate and inflate data, Cryptix IJCE for the cipher and message digest (used to compute cipher keys from user plain ascii passphrase) algorithms, and a PGP-style Base-64 armour with P. R. Zimmermann 24-bit CRC method (PRZ24 class) for the [de-]asciification.
Hard-wired default values for cipher (Square) and Simple String To Key (S2K) specifier with message digest (RIPEMD-160) algorithms are used. These and other default values can be individually modified for each user by setting the appropriate properties in a scar.properties file placed in the user's home directory.
Current scar properties that the user can alter are:
Copyright © 1997, 1998
Systemics Ltd on behalf of the
Cryptix Development Team.
All rights reserved.
$Revision: 1.3 $
public static boolean DEBUG
public Scar()
public static void main(String args[])
public void processOptions(String args[])
public void run()
public void zip(File source, ZipOutputStream zip, int level) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
public void unzip(ZipInputStream zip, File dest) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException
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