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Introduction
Note: TEA Total hasn't been under active
development for over two decades but I have decided to
leave it up in case it is of historical interest to anyone.
TEA Total is a very small 128 bit private key based
encryption/decryption system which uses the block variant of
TEA (Tiny Encryption Algorithm)
by David Wheeler and Roger Needham of the
Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
TEA Total was written by Alex Holden. You can contact me at
TEA is said to be several times faster than DES, as well as being
much smaller and possibly more secure. It also isn't encumbered by
any patents and the reference implementation is in the public
domain.
News
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2/1/2001: Version 0.4 released. TEA Total now has password
protected key and Base64 coding (ASCII Armour) support.
Additionally a much more powerful command line argument
parser was written, a lot of the code was restructured
for easier maintenance, and it is now also available as
source and x86 binary RPM packages.
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27/12/2000: Version 0.3 released. TEA Total now has Huffman
coding (compression) support, a full set of manual pages,
and an internal secure random number generator for operating
systems which don't provide one for us. Also, the key
generator is now an applet instead of a seperate program,
key generation works on OpenBSD as well as Linux, and it is
possible to choose exactly which applets and extra features
to build.
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22/12/2000: Version 0.2 released. TEA Total now uses the
block mode algorithm, which gives a greater than four fold
speed increase, as well as greater efficiency and probably
greater security (due to the use of a sequence number). TEA
Total also now fully supports inter-operation between systems
with both big and little endian byte orders. The file format
should now be stable, and the program has been restructured
internally to ease the addition of the network forwarding
applets which I'm working on.
About TEA Total
Currently TEA Total only supports encryption and decryption of
files (with optional compression and/or Base64 ASCII encoding).
I am writing a set of TEA based encrypted tunnel programs which
will allow you to wrap applications such that their input and
output will be transparently forwarded over a network in encrypted
form.
About the name: TEA Total is a play on the TEA encryption algorithm
which is at the heart of the package, and the phrase "tee total"; a
term used to refer to a person who does not drink alcohol. This is
appropriate because I am tee total myself.
License
In the spirit of the TEA implementation itself, I have placed TEA
Total in the public domain. You can do whatever you like with it,
though I would prefer you to contribute any bug fixes back to me
if possible.
Downloading
The latest available version of TEA Total is version 0.4. This is
available:
Older versions are available from:
http://www.linuxhacker.org/pub/tea-total/
and
ftp://ftp.linuxhacker.org/pub/tea-total/
Mailing List
There was a mailing list for discussion of TEA Total (now closed).
There is a web archive of the list available
at this page.
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