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From: jef@unisoft.uucp (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Some problems with the Crypt Breaker's Workbench
Message-ID: <428@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 18:01:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 18:01:54 1987
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Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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I unpacked it and compiled it on a VAX running 4.3BSD.  No problems.
I ran through the testing procedure, and it works pretty well.  (And
is a lot of fun, too!)  But:

-- When I try to complete a decryption by running the ciphertext through
zeecode, it gets through a few lines and then exits.  No core, it just
exits.

-- The pwords tool does not seem to work very well.  To test it, I made
a words file for Usenet headers by taking an actual Usenet article,
deleting everything but the headers, and inserting linebreaks at the
wordbreaks.  Then I encrypted that same article, and tried pwords on it.
It should have decrypted the whole block, but it only found one or two
words.

Any clues?  Has anyone else run across these problems?
---
Jef

 Jef Poskanzer  unisoft!jef@ucbvax.Berkeley.Edu  ...ucbvax!unisoft!jef
          "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."