Thank you for your interest in CrypEdit(TM) for Windows.


 *** REGISTERING CRYPEDIT ***

     You can register CrypEdit by sending in the order form which you can 
print from CrypEdit's help file, OR you can register online on CompuServe.  
To register online on CompuServe: sign-on, type GO SWREG, select REGISTER, 
and search for CrypEdit as a keyword, (CrypEdit version 4.0 for Windows 3.1 
has a SWREG Registration ID=4332), enter your name and shipping address... 
you will be billed by CompuServe; you should recieve your registered copy 
within 10 business days after registering online on CompuServe.


 *** FILES INCLUDED ***
     
  (NOTE: the Windows 3.1 version is denoted by CEDWE and the Windows
     NT version is denoted by CE32N)
	
Windows 95 ?  If your beta version of Windows 95 does not let CrypEdit 
for Windows NT (32 bit) rename files then run the Windows 3.1 version
of CrypEdit which uses 16 bit file functions and will work.

Files included for the REGISTERED VERSION are:
     ThankYou.Txt (this file)
     CrypEdit.Exe
     CrypEdit.Hlp

Files included for the SHAREWARE VERSION are:
     CEDWE40L.Zip  or CE32N40L.Zip which were Zipped with PK Zip 
version 1.x or 2.x and include these files:
          ReadMe.Txt      (this file)
          CrypEdit.Exe    (the Windows 3.1 or Windows NT executable)
          CrypEdit.Hlp
          Vendor.Txt (shareware distribution file) 

   OR

     CEDWE40L.Exe  or CE32N40L.Exe which were Zipped with PK Zip 
version 1.x or 2.x and then made into self extracting pkzip files 
which include these files:
          ReadMe.Txt (this file)
          CrypEdit.Exe    (the Windows 3.1 or Windows NT executable)
          CrypEdit.Hlp
          Vendor.Txt (shareware distribution file)
 
    
    *** INSTALLING THE PROGRAM ***
     
    Copy the compressed distribution file to your desired directory on 
whatever media/disk.  It is suggested to copy these files to your windows 
directory, which is usually C:\Windows.
     Execute the PKUnZip program on the PK Zip file, or execute the 
executable self-extracting PK Zip file, whichever you may have;
then delete the orginal PK Zipped file. 
     Start Windows, if it is not already started, by executing the 
Win command.
     Now you can either use the file manager to display the CrypEdit.Exe 
program file within one of its windows and then double click on the 
CrypEdit.Exe program file to execute the program, or add CrypEdit to 
one of your Program Manager Groups.  To add CrypEdit to one of your 
Program Manager Groups: first select and enable the Program Manager 
Group that you want to add CrypEdit to.  Now use the Program 
Manager's file menu "New" option, and specify "New Program Item".  
The Program Item Properties dialog box comes up and you can input a 
description, command line, working directory, and a short cut key.  The 
easiest way to complete this action, assuming you have copied all of the 
distribution files to the Windows directory, is to click on the BROWSE 
button, double click on the CrypEdit.Exe file and then click on the OK 
button.  The CrypEdit icon should now appear in the enabled Program 
Manager Group and all you have to do from now on to use the program is 
double click on that icon!


 **********   Overview of CrypEdit   **********

	CrypEdit is a menu driven Windows program that provides users 
with a secure environment to edit, view, and print multiple encrypted 
or plain text files while also enabling users to UU encode or decode, 
compress or expand, secure delete, and encrypt or decrypt DOS 
compatible files of any size.  CrypEdit utilizes pseudo one time pad 
encryption which requires two different passwords 7 to 20 
characters/bytes in length.  On-line documentation is provided 
through a Windows 3.1 compatible help file which is almost an exact 
copy of the printed manual.  Optimized versions of CrypEdit are 
available for Windows 3.1, and Windows NT.

ENCRYPTION IS A VERY IMPORTANT SAFETY AND SECURITY TOOL. 
You should encrypt any information that you want to remain private, 
information that has any value, and any information that could be 
harmful to you or your company if it ended up in the wrong computer.  
Presume that your computer or data diskette and the software and data 
within or on it will get stolen or lost someday.  What can other people 
do with the information within the computer or on the diskette?  Your 
phone book, financial information, investment portfolios, the businesse's 
plan(s), e-mail, modem logon scripts and passwords, source code, 
your latest novel,... awesome digitized pictures of your significant 
other(s) would now be in the hands of someone else!  In just a matter 
of minutes that information would be out of your control.  It could 
be copied, sold, and used to drain your financial accounts, charge 
your credit cards, trade your portfolios, use your business plan(s), 
read or send your e-mail, log onto the network at work with your 
access signature and permissions, log onto some OnLine service(s) to 
use all the really expensive services and charge items from 
electronic malls to your account, compile your source code, copy your 
latest novel,... and view the awesome digitized pictures of your 
significant other(s)!  By the time you got home, or back to the hotel 
room or car, to discover that your computer was stolen your life 
could be changed significantly.  The information age has brought us 
communications and convenience at light speed, your life can also be 
changed at light speed, so be smart and encrypt your valuable and 
sensitive information so that it can't be used or viewed without 
your control.  Encrypting your information with CrypEdit is the 
security equivalent of locking it in a safe that could survive a 
direct thermonuclear blast!

The ability to load, edit, view, print, and save any normal or 
encrypted text editor file ensures that all of the encrypted text 
files the user wants to be private remain private except to those 
people who know the two passwords the user used to encrypt those files.  
Maximum privacy and security is ensured by creating a text editor file 
with CrypEdit and then always saving it as an encrypted text editor 
file.  This ensures that the text editor file never resided on any 
storage media unprotected, (not encrypted).  Allowing the user to send 
DOS compatible text files through "public networks" such as the 
Internet or "common carriers" and be assured a maximum level of 
security.  Encrypted text editor files can be saved normal, 
compressed, compressed and UU encoded, or UU encoded by one simple 
menu command.  The secure delete command is included so the user can 
be sure the file they delete is deleted.

Built in UU encoding utilities will UU encode and decode any file, split 
up a UU encoded file into as many as 100 parts, and reconstruct a 
split up UU encoded file so that 8 bit data files can be transferred 
over systems limited to 7 data bit format as a single file or split-up 
UU encoded files.  Speed and size optimized file compression are 
provided so the user can compress files to save storage media space or 
to minimize data transfer time from computer to computer.  
The multiple document/window text editor enables users to delete, cut, 
copy, paste, search for, search and replace (when search is used in 
combination with paste), and move text (when cut is used in combination 
with paste); it also supports "word wrap" so that users don't have to 
type a carriage return at the end of each line, which makes 
the conversion of text files to, or from, most word processor file 
formats much easier.

YOUR PRIVACY IN COMMUNCATIONS IS ANOTHER ISSUE.  DON'T BE FOOLISH, 
PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY NOW !  The Supreme Court and the government of the 
United States to this date have made no ruling or legislation to ensure 
that electronic data, E-Mail, or electronic documents are guaranteed 
privacy.  In fact in France, and many other foreign countries, it is 
illegal for any private citizen to encrypt their electronic data, the 
privacy privilege is reserved for someone else!  To insure the privacy 
of your text documents, E-Mail, or data files... Use CrypEdit.

NOTE: some file encryption and decryption programs use only one, or more, 
password(s) of any non-zero length and return an error value to the 
calling program or the operating system when the improper password(s) 
is(are) used.  This implies that there must be some whole, part, or 
derivative of the password within their encrypted file which might allow 
people to use password generation programs to test, or use every possible 
password, until the file decrypts; or even worse "secret backdoor options" 
(secret options within the program that allow those people who know about 
them to use them) to decrypt a file without even knowing or entering the 
passwords!  I know, I have written and used password generation programs 
to defeat password protection.  The CrypEdit encryption scheme uses two 
case sensitive passwords of at least seven characters that must be 
different.  It also DOES NOT return any specific value for failing or 
successful use of passwords or program.  There is absolutely no information 
within the encrypted file that is any whole, part, or derivative of either 
password (except the encrypted data of course), and there are no 
"backdoors" or methods to decrypt the file without the original passwords.  
Additionally, you can save up to 1024 characters of notes, or riddles, with 
each encrypted file to remind you, or help whomever determine, what the 
passwords are.