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Linux-Announce Digest #641
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Mon Jan 5 16:13:08 2004
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Linux-Announce Digest #641, Volume #4 Mon, 5 Jan 2004 16:13:04 EST
Contents:
Stes-0.1.3 released (phil hunt)
Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, version 2.3 update ("M. Leo Cooper")
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Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:40:51 CST
From: philh@invalid.email.address (phil hunt)
Subject: Stes-0.1.3 released
I've just released version 0.1.3 of my Stes program, which is
used to automate making archive files, typically for open
source projects.
Stes is what can be called a Steganographic Encryption
System (hence the name), because it encrypts data in a file
while hiding whether other data is hidden in the same file.
More precisely, if you have a ciphertext file, cipher_file,
produced by Stes, and you know that decrypting cipher_file
with key key_1 produces a particular plaintext file
plainfile_1, then you cannot in general tell whether there
exist other decryption keys which will decrypt that
cipher_file to different plaintexts.
Not only do you not know whether such keys exist, you also
don't know how many such keys there are. Even if you know all
the keys, there is no way of demonstrating that no other such
keys exist.
This may be useful in applications where plausible deniability
is desired.
Stes can be downloaded from my website; the announcement is
at:
<http://www.cabalamat.org/weblog/art_162.html>
And the main Stes project page is at:
<http://www.cabalamat.org/oss/stes/intro.html>
--
"It's easier to find people online who openly support the KKK than
people who openly support the RIAA" -- comment on Wikipedia
(Email: <zen20000@zen.co.ku>, but first subtract 275 and reverse
the last two letters).
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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 13:58:48 CST
From: "M. Leo Cooper" <thegrendel@theriver.com>
Subject: Advanced Bash Scripting Guide, version 2.3 update
Announcing the version 2.3 release of the "Advanced Bash Scripting Guide."
This e-book tutorial and reference is the equivalent of a 600-page print book.
With 280 illustrative examples, the book covers virtually every aspect of
scripting.
This e-book now contains printable reference cards, just like commercially
available computer tutorials.
The author invites comparisons with *any* of the commercially printed books on
shell scripting. His aim was to write "best of category" documentation.
"This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of
scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an
intermediate/advanced level of instruction ...all the while
sneaking in little snippets of UNIX wisdom and lore. It serves
as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference
and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The
exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader
participation, under the premise that the only way to really
learn scripting is to write scripts."
-- from the Introduction
License: Open Publication License
This means the book is *free* and freely distributable.
URLs:
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Linux Documentation Project:
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.html.tar.gz
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/abs-guide.pdf
Sunsite:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/abs-guide/
Author's home page:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-2.3.tar.bz2 [ 604k ]
(bzip2-ed tarball containing SGML source, all example scripts,
and rendered HTML)
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