JBO Catflap Cipher

Easily encrypt text files using a alphanumerical key
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  • JBO Software
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JBO Catflap Cipher Description

JBO Catflap Cipher is an application developed to secure text and messages using classical cryptographic methods. What all ciphers have in common is that ultimately, they are breakable. The issue is the amount of time it would take to break them and whether such time would be well spent. Some modern methods of encryption rely on large numbers which cannot be factored for security. Most traditional ciphers have a finite number of solutions ... consider a cipher system which uses an alphanumeric key (any sequence of alphanumeric and punctuation characters, and of any length) to perform polyalphabetic substitution of both upper and lower case letters, numbers, and commonly used punctuation, against a random table of cipher characters and you have the basis of the JBO Catflap Cipher. The program provides tabbed pages into plain text, or cipher text, may be typed or loaded from suitable text files. Once a key has been entered, the user may encrypt or decrypt the desired text. As space characters are permitted in Catflap, it is possible for small sequences of spaces to appear in the cipher text. For this reason the user should avoid using 'copy and paste' for transferring the cipher text from the Catflap program to its destination. It is recommended to save the ciphertext and then transfer the resulting file to the recipient by the intended means, perhaps attached to an email. Alternatively, the cipher text can be printed directly from Catflap. For amounts of text of one kilobyte or more, the distribution is usually below 6% for all characters (assuming a key which is not very repetitious). It is possible to use randomly generated keys equal in length to the plain text, thus enabling Catflap to operate as a One Time Pad cipher. Even with shorter and more user-friendly keys, patterns in cipher text are not helpful to anyone attempting to analyze the cipher.


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