From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:info-cpm Newsgroups: fa.info-cpm Title: crypt.c versus SCRAMBLE Article-I.D.: ucb.1498 Posted: Tue Jul 13 00:24:25 1982 Received: Tue Jul 13 09:35:04 1982 >From w8sdz@BRL Tue Jul 13 00:24:06 1982 What makes crypt.c better or more desirable than Ward Christensen's SCRAMBLE.ASM? His works on both ASCII and binary files and uses an 8-character key word which is exclusive-or'ed with the data. It uses a pseudo-random number generator as well, and I believe does not suffer from the problem of the key being easily spotted in a field of binary zeros.