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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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