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1.1     ! root        1:                     Stealth V1.1 MS-DOS Appnotes
        !             2:                  17 April 1994 Christopher M. Wiles
        !             3: 
        !             4: These application notes pertain to my port of Henry Hastur's Stealth
        !             5: V1.1 to the MS-DOS filesystem.
        !             6: 
        !             7: First and foremost, this PGP filter does _not_ work with an ascii-armored
        !             8: text input file.  It was designed and coded for use with straight binary
        !             9: files.  This is fine when your primary purpose is to exchange files via
        !            10: the use of steganography, but is rather useless if one wishes to remove
        !            11: and replace the PGP headers on an e-mail message.
        !            12: 
        !            13: It wouldn't be that difficult to patch the source to handle both input
        !            14: and output of ascii armor.  If you want to see this modification, send
        !            15: me e-mail at the below address.  I'll do it if enough people request it.
        !            16: 
        !            17: Additionally, there may be an error in Henry's README file, as included
        !            18: in this package.  He states that the following command sequence invokes
        !            19: PGP with Stealth as a filter:
        !            20: 
        !            21:         "pgp -ef < secrets.dat | stealth > pgp.stl"
        !            22: 
        !            23: This hasn't worked for me.  PGP hangs when it requests a recipient name
        !            24: (a direct result of redirecting STDIN to SECRETS.DAT).  This works for
        !            25: me:
        !            26:         "pgp -ef < secrets.dat NAME | stealth > pgp.stl"
        !            27: 
        !            28: ... where NAME is the recipient's name.
        !            29: 
        !            30: That's about it.  Hats off to Henry Hastur for writing the code, and to
        !            31: Xenon for making it publicly available.
        !            32: 
        !            33: -- Christopher M. Wiles ([email protected])

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