You might find this picky, but I sure would appreciate some of the common shortcuts be placed in the file explorer pane that are typically found in Windows Explorer, like "My Computer", "My Documents", etc. It takes me forever to navigate from the "C:/" root directory all the way down to the "My Documents" directory, and then to the folder I'm aiming for. Just a thought to save time...
...In addition, in the Encrypt pane where the files are listed that you are going to add to an archive, it would be nice to add a "Clear" button. Unless I'm missing something, the only way to clear files from this pane is to select them all and press delete.
I'm on a roll now ....Regarding the process of adding files to a secure archive...It would be nice to have an option where the user could select to have CS secure delete the individual files from the hard drive after they are added to a secure archive. The user now has to do this in two steps - add them to archive, and then manually secure delete from hard drive.
As CryptoSuite is able to checksum files, why not extend this ability and making it capable of verifying file integrity using the different algorithms already used for checksumming, and not only CRC32 or MD5 - these ones commonly used in file integrity verification? Regards Rui
here's something that would be of a huge help for me, but I don't really know how much others will benefit from it: make it run in wine. I hate it when I can't use it without a reboot. Cheers, Andreas (Actually, I'm not even sure how much this is a question of tweaking CS or rather wine itself. I've tried a lot with it but to no avail. Maybe someone can at least have a look at it/them both.)
Hi Rui, Not sure what you mean exactly as CS already does give you the ability to check others apart from CRC32 & MD5: The file <C:\Documents and Settings\Utils\procexp.exe> has the following Checksum(s) ADLER32 - FA2ED59A CRC32 - F6E8D18D HAVAL128 - 4A5A006AE2DF1D99E2A49FFB5E000139 HAVAL256 - 0E3A7CC593507E961AE820D1155206B3051388F0959D56D37A4D0F3F1BAB4C18 MD2 - 2CAF30A910FDAAFC5FDAECD42754C196 MD4 - FA74211AB7650056ADE921E7409E5839 MD5 - F373EB00925D44B88244FC70E1926C0A SHA-160 - 61C35DDA9D1EF955F58E7EEB3DF7B9C9A4B4388A SHA-256 - 5B3B49DE5F95A8E8E33A2EB9119BA604F9D99C5A723DFA7357EB4C39417AC49A SHA-384 - CFFE79D2829D0ADC7892EAB9C4AF83882451AF9E95696D8CF48189697B334EB56749674B07ADACC4F4579C136B18FA6A SHA-512 - F77E026B473FA6C246D96F741DB7E591CAA2CF6FD03D5E04252552CBF23D257C1E9DC92AB3F89022C4FDDC0C02B2507FB13D83925AB1A0F18D8182783AD6E776 TIGER - 4737BEC5164547B7A71232087D1E8E8FB39D541AF85D782E
Hi Pilli I am afraid my request was not adequately clear. I know that CS provides the user with the ability to check files using several algorithms. Now, suppose you want to check two files with same name and extension, to see if they are different. As far as I understand it (please correct me if I am wrong), you would calculate first checksums for one file, and then for the other, and finally you would VISUALLY check both files checksums, in order to see whether they are identical or not. What I mean is that CS should have a routine providing the user with the ability to AUTOMATICALLY compare files/folders, one against the other, using the several algorithms already used. So, my wishlist for CS is: (1) Ability to automatically compare two apparently identical files; (2) Ability to automatically saving checksum data using an apppropriate extension, and providing the user the ability to check a file against its checksum, to see if the file is corrupted, tampered or altered in some other way - also useful when you want to check data was adequately written to the CD-R you have just burned ; (3) Ability to automatically compare files/folders at different moments, thus providing the user a simple way of verifying system files integrity, For instance, CS should provide the user with the ability of calculating individual checksums for all files in "My Documents" folder, storing this data at a convenient location, and one week later compare the changes occurred in the files of the same folder, informing the user of what files in that folder were deleted, what files are new, and what files were modified. IMHO this would give CS an interesting added value. Hope I was clear this time! Best regards Rui
In addition to Rui's request, it would be great to be able to drag any two files into CS for automatic comparison.
Over the past couple of years have been reading where the AES candidate "Serpent" Cipher is more secure than Rijndael. A sampling: "Many cryptographers agree that Twofish or Serpent where far superior in terms of security than Rijndael. Also, concider the fact that there is only 3-rounds of security margin to the 128bit and 5-rounds security margin to 256bit AES, since best known attacks currently breaks 7/10 and 9/14 rounds of AES. For example, the best attack only breaks 8/16 rounds of Twofish and 10/32 rounds of Serpent ciphers." Also check out the CryptoSyetem Site: http://www.cryptosystem.net/aes/ Have you considered using Serpent down line if Rijndael shows weaknesses?
I was considering Serpent back when it started but ultimately made the decision to use TwoFish since it was a bit faster and pretty much as secure as Serpent. With CryptoSuite you have the luxury of not needing to worry so much if AES/Rijndael is ever broken because you will have another algorithm there protecting your data. Incase you are unaware, CryptoSuite uses 2 encryption algorithms in cascade to protect your data, not just one like other programs.
Am aware CryptoSuite uses two algorithms, which is a main reason for purchasing the Program. In the past my choice has always been toward Twofish. The question is if Rijndael is ever compromised, would you consider using Serpent as the 2nd cypher in CryptoSuite?
Suggested additional features: 1. Secure password generator with selectable: number of passwords to generate, password length, characters and ability to save generated list. Feature would be convenient for generating one-time pads. 2. Create encrypted zip files 3. Merge file function (steganography). 4. Simple SMTP e-mailer as in TDS-3 5. Bind encrypted files to drive/volume names 6. Lock/unlock directories 7. Selectable compression rate 8. Force complex password profiles 9. Lock/unlock drive directories 10. View password when decrypting self-extracting files Example of one-time pad generation: Base characters generating a pad of 10 passwords: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ,./<>?;':"[]\{}|`1234567890-=~!@#$%^&*()_+ The passwords: 0: K7;s18I/f?d>Tsd@-u7v!#bg3|a_4``bgw^-4iBm5+6WxZVxW$Xw3w#bdD/fkm!MKv@F)d@3P?3.cQ{&oF+X|x:%Gc@4/lg 1: '&\QEa@1r_m<~1<DC(xNe~L*p^j.xCF@S_|<Z%0p(V#QlzgEe2:e0|iB*uT7wF!qcM"B8scyPw_b/EQ*r)[l)p}#F5=ze?z 2: e`2c.d[,#-.nTl,4{e1|@[U/3pC/s/(Z!FpZPp.T|rb-,pTWDE6HL("n;|zAimD&Rp^yX7jFwzS}V<9bUK[6&kj5|e1u? 3: *y*kbiQZSu(cA)G^KWP@6z+/rLP|dHacH@ksNa&fM_<FQDv*3(y'25yrG>A!~K-}p'UQ&`c0Sk,vgyl)Rc[Yo)]ZE>O?W 4: &'tVxCJehTed&ljE+5'Hal@E>t8KNBDK#T/~>RgRJscb0A"2~KD>q^uWh*4od2EK:#+'q/$6]HbFL&w=aO?n2i#Y0=Xix7( 5: clU^rx+g;H'7'Bs]|eaNC>7Gx[8_XelhMpHrx4y\'p:!LB-E*,]#\uT):3]6?WlbtWa4=Dp*.v_Z&EKf4&RQy41t2|zJC$# 6: ["5P_Ij'eAjq~MQay(W73CdKV{VH$O?yM<UhMU_~r[{`:2@'8#U;5NPPE]V'H>n}pNf0=yRt<}DfR3)=nX)B|.fln(R5Nzq 7: PFm1cOa]xUT]/]hs_qI*'e+>~S$YN<2WK!z2TUNM2ol!:KnqeHVB$XDMA8(ymkmlov+oO]Wh{-~KYVw{3":5=oNTu{;.OaI 8: gfIb%/=;2A0+jW"R"YYcg"t>Q{[S47dv<m4;#hsMk~P#z6w3kU+T|^vM<*ys>]4CejP{-,m!Xf)d,XR@xSYQo5c38PiYnQU 9: d)J#{LgFE):3^a0xPL+s#|`]@"5|C#RC]+jp:gl5Of;ptg4E0cBVL:5UHF02M1+cB%k7oB\]ogrXZ,InE3CVkcKkg]"90(D
Have you considered support for steganography? ie. the hiding of encrypted data in something aparently benign like a picture or wave file.
1. Have an option to transparently compress the data before it is encrypted so that frequency analysis cannot be performed on the 2nd layer of encryption (if the first one is cracked) 2. Fix the bug in the Chat client where people are still shown as being connected after they have lost their connection to the server (maybe a periodic poll to the server for a connected user count and if it doesn't match then sync again) 3. In the chat client allow mutiple lines of text to be sent alternately when a multiple line "paste" is performed accept each line and iterate so that all of the lines are sent
I'd like to be able to drag and drop files or folders into CryptoSuite for encryption rather than using the tree.
hey jason you ever chexcked out invisiable secrets its phat program it give you some ideals to expand on for me my wish would be a crpto hd lock and burner for cd's and dvd's
I second that. Plus, I'd like some ability to exchange files securely with a chat partner. For now, a simple send/receive mechanism would make me quite happy. Also, is there a way to copy (parts of) the chat buffer to the clipboard? Thanks for consideration!
