The tooltip for the 'encrypt'-plugin on http://www.altap.cz/download.html tells me, that the format specification for the .ENA-format is available.
Could someone tell me, where I can find this specification? A first Google-search was not successful.
Furthermore I would like to know, if there is a third-party freeware tool that provides decryption of archives made with the SS-encryption plugin. This would make it possible to email those archives to people who don't work with SS (although it's hard to believe that a Windows-user can exist even a single day without the manifold benefits of Servant Salamander).
ENA format specification, decryption w/o Servant Salamander?
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ENA decryption utility
Hi Jan, thanks for your answer!Jan Rysavy wrote:There doesn't exist other tool with support for the ENA format. We can provide such small utility, but there wasn't demand until today...
There will be far more important tasks for you than providing a stand-alone-tool for ENA-decryption. This is not a feature request, but if you have the time once it might be a good idea to release even a simple command line utility for this purpose. In my opinion this could increase the use the encryption-plugin. In this case it would be possible (e. g.) to encrypt all the files on a CD that you want to send by snail-mail and offer an decryption utility on the same CD (password or key file via e-mail). I know that there are already tools that will do this, but in this case it would be one simple step and simplicity makes people use a function.
Besides the strong encryption one major advantage of the ENA-encryption is the fact that you cannot even have a look at the archive content without the password or the key file. You can of course achieve a similar result with other packers too by packing an archive, but this is one step more.
If there were an academy award for file-managing-software, I would vote for Servant Salamander in all categories:
- best overall functionality
- highest performance
- best user interface
Best wishes
Standalone ENA decoder
Please, either make ENA files self-decrypting EXE files or advise where a standalone ENA decrypter may be found. I like the tool very much.