Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.security.pgp.discuss,sci.crypt
Subject: ANN: Self-restoring encrypted archives
Date: Tues, 30 Mar 1999

Announcement
============

Stevenage, Herts - Kwik-Rite Development has today released the first 
public beta of Kwik-Crypt (development announced on 11 March 1999) - an 
encrypting/compressing archive utility.

Kwik-Crypt produces a multi-file compressed archive encrypted with Blowfish 
using an SHA-1 password hash.  The file format is extensible and other 
algorithms may be implemented in due course.

Users can either distribute just the archive file or Kwik-Crypt can create a 
self-restoring file that when run on a target machine will decompress and 
decrypt each file.

The most important part of the announcement, Kwik-Crypt is released as 
Freeware and will have full Delphi 4 source code posted after beta-testing 
is complete.  

Sam Simpson is providing advice on the cryptographic elements of the 
program.

Another announcement will be made when the product is fully released.

For those of you interested in downloading it, please go to 
www.kwikrite.clara.net


-- 
Andy Jeffries
Kwik-Rite Development

--See http://www.kwikrite.clara.net/ for Kwik-Crypt BETA - Self-restoring
  archive maker for Windows 95/98/NT using Blowfish   (FREEWARE)