Sicuro Delayed, Happy Holidays Etc.

Well it's that time of year again. I've just got back from setting up the Spanish offices for a customer of mine: Tailored Marine Supplies.

Much as I enjoyed the work, the climate, Sotogrande, the company and especially the last meal at the Argentinean restaurant - this has unfortunately meant that work on Sicuro has been parked for the last couple of weeks, hence this product is now scheduled to be released in January.

I'd like to wish happy holidays to all my customers, friends and everyone really. I'm not going to be working over Christmas although I will be answering emails.

Happy Holidays and a Prosperous New Year :-)



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R10Cipher Released Soon ...

I'm just doing the final testing of R10Cipher, ensuring that it runs well and looks nice on Linux. Mac OSX was easy as that is my preferred development platform, Windows XP and Vista was also straightforward with just a few modifications. Linux has proven a bit more troublesome but I'm happy with the results so far.

R10Cipher is a simple Cross Platform Encryption / Decryption tool. It is aimed at a specific market who have a great need for this, and a mix of hardware, hence I had to make it work across all viable platforms, but I will be releasing this as a general purpose tool as well.

R10Cipher basically can take text and encrypt it using Blowfish encryption. This file can then be emailed or sent elsewhere and the recipient can use R10Cipher to open the file and view the encrypted contents, assuming they are in possession of the Shared Key that was used to encrypt the document in the first place.

Many people do not realise that sending an email is the equivalent of sending a postcard, it's contents are easily visible. For certain markets this is totally unacceptable and with the rumoured hijacking and potential complexity of the Public Key Encryption systems it makes sense to encrypt using a utility such as this. R10Cipher can also be used in conjunction with Sicuro my 'Data Vault' software that will be available before Christmas. I have added the functionality of R10Cipher to Sicuro, so a user of Sicuro and a user of R10Cipher can share encrypted documents with no problems.

I'll produce the documentation tonight and tomorrow and R10Cipher will be available for download over the weekend.





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iPhone Developer Program

Today I joined the iPhone Developer Program. I paid my $99 and can now test applications directly on the device and also upload to the app store :-)

This happy event coincided with the day that I have just taken on a large bespoke project ... so I guess I am going to be busy for a while as I have Sicuro being launched in December and R10Cipher being launched in a few days.

I've been severely lax in my blogging for a while and I can't see the situation improving anytime soon unfortunately, still it's nice to be busy !

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Sicuro: Release Roadmap

I've published the Release Roadmap for our next product, Sicuro: http://www.artenscience.com/artenscience/SicuroRoadmap.html

Sicuro is a Cross Platform application designed to gather together, store securely and make available quickly the plethora of information that todays lifestyle makes necessary to keep close at hand. Sicuro will help organise your digital lifestyle.

The MacOSX version of Sicuro should be available before Christmas.

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