Enigma 1.0 Requirements for Windows

Enigma 1.0 requires Windows version 3.1 and a 286. It requires about 600K of memory, and about 300K of disk space.


Getting Started With Windows

To encrypt or decrypt files select "Open..." from the Enigma file menu. You will be prompted for a key. The files will be automatically encrypted and/or decrypted depending on their type. Depending on the options you have selected you will need to enter a key and output filename for each file.


Figure 1 The above figure asks the user to select the file for encryption.



Figure 2 The above figure requests the user to enter an encryption key.

Enigma will automatically determine if the file should be encrypted or decrypted by looking at the file extension. Files with the extension .DSL are assumed to be limited DES encrypted files, files with the extension .DES are full DES encrypted files, and all others are unencrypted files. You can manually override Enigmas default action during key entry if you desire. The only reason to ever override Enigma's default selection is if you are double or triple encrypting a file; or decrypting a file encrypted on a Macintosh which does not have the default file ex


Figure 3 The .dsl extension is automatically added to the file name when encrypted..


If you have the freeware version of Enigma you will not be able to deselect the "Use Limited DES" check box.

During the encryption/decryption process a dialog box showing status will be displayed. You can select cancel at any time to abort the process. You can also move the status window around the screen, or push Enigma into the background by clicking on the window of another open application or minimizing the Enigma application. In the background Enigma will continue to encrypt/decrypt at a somewhat slower pace. Cryptography is very CPU intensive so expect some slowdown of other applications even when Enigma is in the background.

Enigma has many options which will allow you to customize and streamline the encryption/decryption process. Refer to the section "Customizing Enigma" for details.


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