NAME
    candiecipher - encrypt a text document using "candie" encoding.

SYNOPSIS
    candiecipher --help 
    candiecipher <file>

DESCRIPTION
    The candiecipher utility "candiefies" a text document, making it
    difficult for non-candie-ravers to read.  While this may seem rather
    frivolous and cutesy, it actually has several cryptographically-useful
    applications. For example, "candified" text, while generally human-
    readable (with difficulty) is extremely difficult for computers to scan
    (even those with fairly sophisticated language-parsing and A.I.
    capabilities). "Candified" text is therefore almost completely
    invisible to the automatic snooping systems, such as Carnivore or
    Eschelon, that are currently in use by various law enforcement
    agencies.  It will similarly frustrate casual regular-expression
    snooping (using utilities like grep, find, or locate) by nosey system
    administrators.

    --help    Display this help file (which is, of course, also an example
              of what happens when you "candify" a text file:  they are
              human-readable, but just barely).

    Invoking candiecipher without any arguments will generate a succinct
    usage summary.

FEATURES
    There is no "decipher" option: the text conversion uses a complex
    algorithm which is both non-reversible and non-deterministic.  Once a
    file is "candified", there is no way to "uncandify" it.  Therefore,
    care should be taken to keep copies of the original cleartext file
    unless one is certain that one will not need it again.
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BUGS
    Because of the nature of the algorithm by which the text is
    "candified", the input file must be at least 64 characters long
    (excluding tabs, end-of-line characters, and a few other mostly
    non-printing characters). If the input file is shorter than 64
    characters, it will be repeated until it is long enough.