Blowfish Advanced CS v2.51

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Blowfish Advanced CS
http://www.hotpixel.net/software.html

One powerful file encryption and security tool for the Windows platform.
As the successor of highly successful BFA97, Blowfish Advanced CS
offers a bunch of new and improved features which are:

-Algorithms: Blowfish, Twofish, AES, RC4, Triple-DES, Serpent, CAST
-Strong key support, handling and cryptographic implementations
-Fast: encrypts megabytes of file data per second on modern machines
-Data compression using LZSS, ZIP's deflate and BZIP2
-Secure wiping of files and clearing of empty disk space
-Comfortable and efficient user interface with built-in file browser
-Easy working with encrypted files
-Complete integration into Windows Explorer via shell extension
-Automation of daily routines by using job files
-Dozens of options to finetune the application for different purposes
-Small: fits on half of the space of a floppy disk!
-Trustworthy: the complete source code is available for review
-Quick language switch, German and English are supported
-Runs on all Win32 versions, from Windows 95 to Windows Server 2003
-Personal Edition without any restrictions!


2005-02-04 Version 2.51.00.203
CHANGED:
- destination path is now copied from the Key Input to
the Destination dialog

FIXED:
- the maximized main window, if mazimized, was set back
to it soriginal size after any kind of action (encryption, wiping, ...)
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2005-02-02 Version 2.50.00.042
NEW:
- better compression methods are now available:
deflate (ZIP) and the even better (well, in most
cases) BZIP2 algorithm; note that such files
can't be decrypted by older versions of bfaCS
(2.13 and below) or BFA97!
- changed the layout of the progress bars in the
Progress dialog and the Clear Empty Disk Space dialog
- updated control layout in Progress dialog, looks better now IMHO
- a regular install/uninstall distribution is now available
- Windows Server 2003 and Longhorn get detected (in the About dialog)
- support for native Windows XP controls
- new option in the Configuration: "Force Compression"
avoids startover if files are not compressable - with a
slight increase of the output file sizes
- Caps Lock warning in the password dialog, implemented as a tip
- the Clear Empty Disk Space dialog can be minimized at runtime
- all the executables are now shipped in a compressed format,
which lets the whole distibution fit on an ancient 720kB floppy disk!

CHANGED:
- switched password input hiding style to use asterisks
- updated extension list of noncompressable files
- only one external DLL (bfacslib) is now required to run
BFACS.EXE; CryptPak stays internal and has also been
updated (cipher cleanup) for the future
- Help system has been updated to HTML help, requires the presence
of IE to run (only a matter if you have older versions of Windows 95)
- Yarrow is the only random number generator now, made more sense
- transparent window support have been removed (wasn't stable/good enough)
- the license model back is back to commercial, yet the one and only
kind is the Personal Edition, so it is and will stay free - and the
source stays public, however development is now done with a
Delphi 5 Professional

FIXED:
- Unicode filenames have never been stored (NT wasn't detected correctly)
- removed a couple of memory and resource leaks, thanks to MemChk
- reencryption sometimes produced new files with readonly/hidden attributes
- status bar kept saying "wiping" even after the end of a "work with" cycle
 
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Steve H

Blowfish Advanced CS
http://www.hotpixel.net/software.html

One powerful file encryption and security tool for the Windows platform.
As the successor of highly successful BFA97, Blowfish Advanced CS
offers a bunch of new and improved features which are:
<snip>

Cheers for the head's up - I thought this one was out of development!

Regards,
 
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Steve H

It was, but I changed my mind, see

<http://www.hotpixel.net/bfacsFAQ.html>
Markus, delighted to see you're back on the case!

My compliments on an excellent program, and my thanks for sharing it
freely.

I note that job files from an earlier version ( 2.11 ) throw up an
error ( invalid job file ) when used with the new version - but I'm
sure I can tweak them in Notepad.

Best wishes,
 
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Steve H

That actually is an ugly bug, which totally slipped through testing.

It's now fixed and version 2.53 released:

<http://www.hotpixel.net/bfacs253.zip>

Mea culpa,
-markus
Quick work!

I note that the fix list says that job files from previous to version
2.5 can no longer be read...so I'll have to get me Notepad out anyway!
Only really need the paths/filenames anyway.

Regards,
 

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