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       Short Description: Ccrypt v1.9 for OS/2
        Long Description: Ccrypt v1.9 for OS/2

   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.

   Encryption and decryption depends on a keyword (or key phrase)
   supplied by the user.  By default, the user is prompted to enter a
   keyword from the terminal.  Keywords can consist of any number of
   characters, and all characters are significant (although ccrypt
   internally hashes the key to 256 bits). Longer keywords provide better
   security than short ones, since they are less likely to be discovered
   by exhaustive search.

   For a detailed description of the encryption algorithm used by ccrypt,
   see the man page.


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