From: werner@mc.ab.com
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 94 13:30:33 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: re: CRYPT
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>Date: Tue, 5 Apr 1994 13:25:38 -0600 (MDT)
>From: Ryan Snyder--Consultant <cs000rrs@selway.umt.edu>
>I am trying to crack a textfile which has been encrypted with a program 
>(for the IBM) called CRYPT. Can anyone help me with a method, a program 
>which will break it, or a pointer to more information on how I might go 
>about it? Thanks in advance.

This reminds me of cwb, I think, or else it's cbw (stands for codebreaker's
workbench), that is supposedly a tool for breking crypt-ed text.  I tried
to make this tool work a couple of times, and never got it working.  One
fellow I corresponded with said it worked for him right out of the box.  I
eventually decided that it didn't work for me at least partly because it
was too dependent on the vt220 display.  I never actually ran it on a
vt220.

Did anyone ever do any work to improve cbw (or cwb)?  Everyone is always
saying what a joke crypt is, but I've never been able to crack it with
anything I got on the net.  What do people really use to break (BSD)
crypted text?

tw