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SCART - Simple Cipher Analysis and Recovery Tool
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Patrick Lowry <pmlowry@users.sourceforge.net> 
Douglas Reed <dougreed@users.sourceforge.net>

SCART is meant to be a simple tool useful in aiding the decryption and 
analysis of text encrypted with any of a number of simple ciphers.


BUILD
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Building instructions are fairly straightforward.

tar xjf scart-version-number.tar.bz2
cd scart
make

No automatic "installation" procedures will occur; you may want to
symlink the resulting scart binary into your PATH.


CIPHER INFORMATION
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SCART currently supports a number of methods of decryption of common
classical ciphers, namely substitution, caeser, and atbash ciphers.

For caeser cipher decryption simply select 'Caeser' from the menu on 
the left, and then paste your ciphertext into the box on top.  The rest
is left to you; scroll through the bottom box until you find the line
that is plaintext... there are only twenty-five possibilities.

For atbash cipher decryption, things are even easier.  Simply select
'Atbash' from the menu on the left, and paste your ciphertext into the
box on top.  The decrypted text should appear automagically in the
bottom box.

For substitution ciphers, there are a couple of different ways to
decode your ciphertext:

1. FREQUENCY ANALYSIS
	Go to Tools->Generate Frq. Tables to generate frequency tables
	from a large text characteristic of the English language.  Then
	choose the degree of analysis, and press "Execute".

2. DICTIONARY ANALYSIS
	Go to Tools->Load Dictionary, and select a text file (one word 
	per line) to be used as a dictionary.  Then customize your 
	parameters and press "Execute".