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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Crush Cryptonizer

« Last post by Crush on December 27, 2008, 05:23 PM »

Crush Cryptonizer Release V1.1 is online.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Crush on December 27, 2008, 02:08 PM »

I think stopKa is working without any included spyware or worm. A big problem is that the program needs a tricky user to get "normal" results. I also concentrate on the theme Disc-Cataloging and Searching here, but the way he´s promoting it here is by far more intense (pushing) then I do with my own Disc-Cataloger project.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Crush on December 27, 2008, 11:29 AM »

@J-Mac:
I do regularly AV-scans with different products and have a scanner running in the background the whole time with hourly updates. I think the most also will do so. I run a lot of different programs a day and had no instable system or anything like that in the last two years - only at the moment with stopKa. Why do you guess this could be the reason for our problems with this specific program?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Crush on December 27, 2008, 09:32 AM »

I made the same bad experience as my predecessors. It´s not very reliable, too complex to setup and not easy and intuitive as other search programs.

Compared by speed & search results quality (please explain, what is the quality of results?) with Locate32 and Everything I see no big advantage using StopKA.
I didn´t took a look in the index size, but the others are in these two points winners compared to StopKa.
You should really bush up the user interface to be more easy and intuitive to use.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrushLinx

« Last post by Crush on December 25, 2008, 08:33 AM »

CrushLinx V1.2 is online!
@mouser: Clipboard function is now included in the background (used at every Linx-generation)

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: CrushLinx

« Last post by Crush on December 24, 2008, 04:57 PM »

Hi there!
CrushLinx V1.1b is online!
Some small fixes will come. Only for testing.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2009 Release: Crush Cryptonizer

« Last post by Crush on December 20, 2008, 06:55 PM »

Crush Cryptonizer Release V1.0 is online.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2009 teaser: Crush Cryptonizer

« Last post by Crush on December 17, 2008, 05:04 PM »

@f0dder: Thank you for your scepticism. You´re not the first one. Other coders had the same. Alpha1 has changed to Alpha2 with optimized algos. I sent the other my sourcecode and this also didn´t helped, because he wasn´t able to see how it differs to other crypters. If you´re not outstanding good in math and coding you´ll not be able to prove Crytonizer is more or less secure as others.

"friends don't let friends use homebrew crypto-algorithms" -> do you really think most of the Encryption-Algos are not homebrewn? If it would be so no free public encryption would be available.
If you´d take a closer look at some of the coolest freeware programs I bet the most of them are homebrewn.

Please remember: Cryptonizer is no weekend-project. I started with this thing a few years ago and used it in customers software. Later I saw it could be improved. This is what I do now.
The only way to show you it´s no fake is to explain all functions as good as possible.

Good encryption must not mean you need complicate code and mathematical mastership. The results are measurable and comparable with several testing tools from NIST and others. I use Cryptools testing-suite for my tests. That´s the same others did in the past. The tools for encryption are not so rich as it seems.

I know all the open encryptions and how they basically work. All weaknesses of "public" encryption algorithms have been eleminated in Cryptonizer. I´m still working and improving the encryption algorithm itself for even better results in all Cryptool-Tests. Its a funny thing is that I make a comparison especially to AES-256 that you mentioned. All Crypttool tests show at the moment (not the Alpha1 version) that Cryptonizer comparable or better results to AES-256. I suppose this means there is enough security by the entrophy and others.
All encrypting programs use the same ways to get to an aim:
1.) EORing bytes with the password  (adds/subs/rols/rors somtimes also)
2.) Shuffling the bytes (Shifting rows and mixing columns)
3.) Substitution with other datas
4.) Adding the key to the datas
5.) Iterations on the results
6.) Changing the encryption key each run

So do I. -> No big difference till now

Where are the flaws?
The main goal was maximum security with maximum speed.
The Key lengths, the size of the cypher-block and the size of the source-data-block is restricted to a fixed size
All rounds (iterations) are limited by the encoding depth.
There is no real salt inside, because the result block must bev than same as the source and cannot be safed with the datas
Real salt is not existing and can only be calculated from the password itself what is enough for some safety but not enough for higher security.
The key is not changing while coding.
Iterations do not change all input parameters
overall: Too many restrictions trimmed to speed

What does Cryptonizer?
My goal is maximum security - the speed isn´t important.
The Key lengths, the size of the cypher-block and the size of the source-data-block is restricted to the size of 2^32
The iterations are limited to 2^32
Real salt can be calculated in the size you wish or loaded from a one-time-pad or any other files-source you like - they get saved with the datas
The iterations changes the datas, the key, the password and the salt at each run. This is the reason why all must be saved together with the encrypted datas. Cryptonizers algorithm is a one-way-street that can go only back the same way to lead to the original source data without any possible shortcut.
Due to the extremely variable iterations you can create an encryption that takes minutes/hours/days or even years to decrypt even with the same password.

To assure the best possible encryption results, I make tests with a fully zeroed file with a one-byte-zero-filled
 one-time-pad and only one iteration. This result is tested with all tests of Cryptool. If the result is cool enough I go to the next testing step.

In this test I take several files and encode them with AES-256 with different password. To be sure I use the same settings in Cryptonizer (32 Bytes Key, the same password and 15 iterations - exactly like AES-256). Then I compare all test results with Cryptool again.

At the moment in Alpha  2 it seams that AES-256 delivers not as good results as Cryptonizer - and I´m still working on the algorithm to maximize results. Besides, some of the tests are not passed by AES-256. Cryptonizer passes all. This shows how hard it is to make a really good encryption! My goal is to have similar results as atmospheric noise at the end. Till now I´m not so far away of it.

Nobody is forced to use Cryptonizer. So if you don´t like it - don´t use it.
I did in the past and will do in the future.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: The Best Gaming Moments of 2008

« Last post by Crush on December 16, 2008, 06:33 PM »

I´m playing Mass Effect PC for a few days now. There have been and I´m sure there will be countless great moments and stories. For 2008 it´s my favourite game.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2009 teaser: Crush Cryptonizer

« Last post by Crush on December 16, 2008, 05:58 PM »

Thanks!  I haven´t remarked this function is Vista-only. Please try the new file.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2009 teaser: Crush Cryptonizer

« Last post by Crush on December 16, 2008, 03:06 PM »

The first Alpha is online now for tests and suggestions.

Enter Password, Keylength and Iterations. Decrypt after Encryption makes a test decryption to be sure. Set Key Length to Filesize has the words swapped  The Keylength will be set to the Filesize that will be scrambled. Load One-Time-Pad selects a complete File as a Password. This will later set the "Set Key to Filesize" hook active. Crypt let you select the file and starts without waiting. The Crypted file will be saved after encryption and the name gets ended by .cCrypt. Decrypt makes the same to the other direction (deletes the .cCrypt at the end and saves the original filename). Please use this version only for testing, because the Randomizer, CRC and Encryption-Algorithm will be changed by others for the release. If the Decryption not successful the file will not be saved.

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General Review Discussion / Re: Zaine's review of Compression Tools is cited in an excellent book on Compression

« Last post by Crush on December 14, 2008, 07:35 AM »

Congratulation Zaine! 

I would like this book - could be interesting. But some people wrote in reviews its not diving deep enough into the algorithms. A long time ago there were some revolutionary big new inventions about fractal compression - why aren´t there any till now?
About 15 years ago I  had a new (and unbelievable simple) idea to create a Crunch-Optimizer as a previous pass before others. I included it in my Democruncher and it was often significantly better than LHA that was the best one at this time. I wonder how it would effect nowadays compressors like 7Zip? After Cryptonizer there could be enough time to make another small NANY entry.

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Living Room / Re: Genetic programming

« Last post by Crush on December 09, 2008, 08:29 AM »

Interesting, but where is the difference to the devide and conquer algorithm?

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: DecClock [1.4.3.0 released]

« Last post by Crush on December 08, 2008, 04:54 PM »

Great! Now all works properly.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: StopKa - desktop search tool

« Last post by Crush on December 08, 2008, 12:52 PM »

StopKa is running. When selecting Index->start the program crashes - even if started in Administrator & Compatibility mode. Is it incompatible with Windows Vista?

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: DecClock [1.4.1.4 released]

« Last post by Crush on December 08, 2008, 07:44 AM »

  Oh, I didn´t knew that hexadecimal time is not representing seconds and minutes the "normal" way and show the "real" numbers as hexadecimals. I expected 2 digits for the seconds 00-3b and the same with minutes and hours.
This way it´s extremely hard to read the "real" time from a clock for humans. Without an introduction to the time-systems noone will understand it. Who knows that a hexsec is 1.32 secs, a hexmin 21.09 secs and a hexhour 1.3 hours long ?
So it´s now clear that your time-systems didn´t suit to my understanding of time conversion. Insert a site with a discription of the time-systems (perhaps with internetlinks), please.

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / NANY 2009 Release: Crush Cryptonizer

« Last post by Crush on December 07, 2008, 03:45 PM »

NANY 2009 Entry Information

Application Name	Crush Cryptonizer
Version	V1.1b
Short Description	Scramble short files in an absolute super-secure way
Supported OSes	Windows
Web Page	-
Download Link	Crush Cryptonizer V1.1b
Sourcecode	Crush Cryptonizer V1.1b Sourcecode
System Requirements	Pentium 0.01Mhz should take a while but be enough to encrypt. You´ll need a quantum computer to decrypt it if you try to crack a crypted file
Version History	08/12/01 Idea V1.0 08/12/21 Release V1.0 08/12/28 Release V1.1 09/02/27 Release V1.1b (several internal fixes)
Author	Crush

Description
You can crypt/decrypt in an extremely high secure way short files. I´d say there´s currently no harder encryption existing. It´s not based on standard crypting routines like AES, Serpent or Twofish and hashes like RipeMD, SHA or others. The program has exclusive in-built cruelty-cryptonite that makes it unusable for realtime-encryption/decryption!

Features
The strength is its combination of iteration calculations, salt generation, code-shuffle algorithm that gives you the power to decide how long someone will take to decrypt it properly. This means: You can crypt a 4-byte text as example so hard that the decryption with the key could take several years on a Cray XT5 supercomputer if you like - the only problem is: You also need the same time to encrypt 

Technical information:
A number, password or file can be used as input salt. Even if you take the same settings for encryption your encrypted file will be everytime totally different. During the whole process a shuffle-index is recalculated constantly from the results and the actual salt/key. The datas are eored and shuffled with the complete salt. Shuffling means the bytes are changed in the destination datas and the salt itself and so change the next following encryption pass. If the salt is longer than the datas to encrypt it starts at the beginning with this predure - so the start position of the encryption can change every loop. While shuffling it calculates from the actual salt a new shuffle-index in a ping-pong way. This index shuffles the salt itself. It´s because of the nature of the calculation impossible to shorten the encryption in any way. You need to calculate the whole way back with all iterations to get to the original datas and to decrypt all you also need the position where to start in the salt. It´s not even the most imaginable secure way to crypt datas. Additionally it fully supports [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad]One-time pads. That is till now with right usage an uncrackable way of encryption (Wikipedia cit.: "The one-time-pad is the only cryptosystem with perfect secrecy... OTP can be used, along with a more standard cryptosystem, in a superencryption scheme).

Planned Features

Usage
Installation
You need nothing special to do - only run the .exe file

Using the Application
Read the readme.txt

Uninstallation
Only delete the file

Known Issues
none at the moment

Screenshot

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: DecClock [1.4.1.4 released]

« Last post by Crush on December 07, 2008, 02:14 PM »

Is there a problem with the time in hexadecimal? I get something like this: E_1A_E.
Each 16 seconds it changes to the next number und resets the first one: E_1B_0.
This would mean that the right ones represent the seconds: 1B_0 and the next one E the minutes... where are the hours? 

One thing that should change somehow if possible is the cpu-usage. In my case I have a 2.4Ghz Core 2 CPU and the prog takes 4-8% calculation time. This is by far too much for daily use ... hey, it´s only a clock.
Perhaps you can remove all loops and insert sleep functions or timer-interrupts

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2009 Release: CrushLinx

« Last post by Crush on December 07, 2008, 02:01 PM »

How should the output format be?
... and why is copying something in c++ to the clipboard so extremely complicate 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / NANY 2009 Release: CrushLinx

« Last post by Crush on December 07, 2008, 01:39 PM »

NANY 2009 Entry Information

Application Name	CrushLinx
Version	V1.2
Short Description	Create linklist from numbered URLs to open in multiple screens or Download-Managers
Supported OSes	Windows
Web Page	-
Download Link	CrushLinx V1.2.exe (284.5 kB - downloaded 1462 times.)
System Requirements	Pentium 0.95Mhz should be more than enough
Version History	08/12/01 Release V1.0 08/12/24 Release V1.1b 08/12/25 Release V1.2
Author	[url=https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=51520]Crush

Description
You can use this prog to view or download content from numbered URLs (pictures/videos/attachments/Forum-entries)

Features
automatically opens results in your favourite browser

Planned Features

Usage
Installation
You need nothing special to do - only run the .exe file

Using the Application
Enter the URL. Mark the numbers in the link with the mouse pointer. Enter the start end end number and perhaps how long the numbers must be in the fixed counter box as shown in the screenshot. Press Generate. That´s all!

Uninstallation
Only delete the file

Known Issues
I think it works without big problems

Screenshot

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General Software Discussion / Re: New duplicate file finder... I am open to features suggestion

« Last post by Crush on December 07, 2008, 08:16 AM »

@city_zen
Hey, thanx for your research! Cool Freeware! 

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Rewards

« Last post by Crush on December 06, 2008, 05:12 AM »

Hey mouser, this would be a cool thing for the next Dusmania!

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General Software Discussion / Re: New duplicate file finder... I am open to features suggestion

« Last post by Crush on December 05, 2008, 09:18 AM »

Till now I miss in this kind of software automatic symlink or hardlink creation to clones. (hardlinks should be retestable in case the original file has been deleted)

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: Nano 2009 Release: CrushPad

« Last post by Crush on December 03, 2008, 12:38 PM »

While clearing up the prog for release a function has been disabled through an oversight. Its now repaired. Please take the update thats online now. Thx to Perry Mowbray for his help.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Screen saver that isn't a screen saver...

« Last post by Crush on December 03, 2008, 12:33 PM »

I´m still searching for a way to force the system drawing to a backbuffer so that I can write to the real screen the transformed one. Using a fullscreen OpenGL-Window would be possible but I´d prefer a "normal" way without 3D-contexts.