Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.security.pgp.discuss,comp.security.pgp.resources
Subject: Announce - ScramDisk v2.02g
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998


Important ScramDisk Information!

Version 2.02e of ScramDisk was released only a week ago.  We are pleased to announce a further version of ScramDisk, v2.02g.

I have attached a release note from AMAN detailing the exact changes in this release.  Once again, this release is a Work In Progress (WIP) and as such does not contain the source code or an updated User Manual.  

We apologise for having two released within such a short period, but these further changes were expected to take much longer.  We hope that the internet community appreciates that SD is a work in progress and can only continue to evolve with this communities input.


Please do not hesitate to contact us with any enquiries.

Regards,


Sam Simpson
Comms Analyst
-- See http://www.hertreg.ac.uk/ss/ for ScramDisk, a free virtual disk encryption for Windows 95/98.  PGP Keys available at the same site.



Release Note from AMAN:
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Interim version of Scramdisk.Version 2.02G work in progress

The new versions have all Scramdisk partitions and physical device
lists disabled by default. Only the topmost icons will be visible 
as a default and partitions will not be accessable.

To enable the partitions, and physical device (drive) icons,
so they can also open "ordinary disks" go to timeout/configure and check: 

[] Enable Scramdisk paritions and other physical devices.


This is to allow "quirky" machines to use scramdisk containers,
without the physical partitions etc.


Lastest mods:


SVL file protection has been added. By default you cannot delete an SVL container file.
To delete one either rename it, and then delete it, or start Scramdisk.exe and
goto configure and check 

[ ]Temporarily allow deletion of container (SVL) files.

This option is not saved, and must be checked everytime Scramdisk.exe is started up
if you want to delete any SVL files.

Various bugs including the JBN bug have now been resolved.


Can now dismount unaccessable container based disk, 
after (say) defrag has been run on the host drive.

All versions of windows should shut down properly without having to 
dismount disks first.

BlockOnID changed to WaitSemaphore(sem,BLOCK_TASK_IDLE) in scramdisk
ring0 thread, so cpu monitors know system is really idle....
BLOCKONID should have done this too!

Some driver error messages have been changed to Windows Message box Provided that
SCRAMDISK.exe is running. If it isn't blue screen error messages are used.

ATTN RED MESSAGE PASSWORD MODE USERS:

If you created your container with any captial "O"  (letter O) in your pass phrases,
IN RED SCREEN MODE subsitute "0" if you can no longer access your contianers.
A bug in the red screen editor, caused "O" to be "0". This is because on the visual
C++ editor font, they look too much alike :(
Anyway its fixed..


No known bugs, apart from DEFRAG, SCANDISK will close your containers.
Don't run DEFRAG, or SCANDISK on drives which store mounted containers.
You can run SCANDISK and DEFRAG on ANY mounted SCRAMDISK though, to
repair it etc.

Aman.