DNA-Crypt

3. The menus

3.1 The File-Menu

3.1.1 How to create an empty text

To type in a text for encryption or decryption use Menu->File->New
or the mnemonic CTRL+N.




3.1.2 How to open a binary file

To open a binary file for encryption use Menu->File->Open...
or the mnemonic CTRL+O.




3.1.3 How encrypt a text or a file

To encrypt a binary file or a text, use Menu->File->Crypt.
DNA-Crypt recognize either a file or a text have to be encrypted and opens
the Clellandencryption Dialog or the Binaryencryption Dialog.
In the Binaryencryption Dialog you have to choose if you want to use a encryption
key, a One Time Pad or no further cryptographic encryption.








3.1.4 How decrypt a text or a file

To decrypt a binary file or a text from a sequence use Menu->File->Decrypt.
Now you have to know, whether a text or a file was enrypted in the sequence.
Further you have to know if it was encrypted in a genome or not.
In kind of binary encryption you have to choose the decryption key.






3.1.5 How to change the properties

BE CAREFULL! DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING, UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!
To change the properties of DNA-Crypt use Menu->File->Properties.
You can change the binary encryption by the first four rows and
the maximum file size and the maximum genome size by changing the last two rows.
The MAX_FILE_SIZE and MAX_GENOME_SIZE must be between 0 and 2147483647.
The default values are
00 -> u
01 -> g
10 -> c
11 -> a
MAX_FILE_SIZE : 102400
MAX_GENOME_SIZE : 102400

To reset the properties press the 'Default'-button.






3.1.6 How to exit DNA-Crypt

To exit DNA-Crypt use Menu->File->Exit
or the mnemonic CTRL+X.



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