Update (29 June 2009)

I may, due to financial situations beyond my control, lose my power on Wednesday. As such, the release of the new GEP will probably be delayed a great deal. Also, I do not believe I will make it for the 4 July 2009 release date I had originally set for version 1.6. It will likely be some time next week before it is finished, so keep looking, folks.

Hoping All Turns Out Well,
-- RH-00

GEP News (26 June 2009)

Well, I managed to get the encryption working...but how the decryption is giving me some hell. Something about the file not being the right length. Fucking AES. I will get this right eventually, so stay tuned.

GEP News (25 June 2009)

Work goes by at a nice and steady pace. I'm still working out the kinks in my methods and whatnot. Bugs are being squashed, errors being corrected, and things are being tested. I do plan to have version 1.6 out before the 4th, so look around then for the release. However, take note that it may may not be released then, so don't get all antsy if it doesn't show up on time.

Until we meet again,
-- RH-00

GEP News (22 June 2009)

I've finally found a good compression library for VB6! Finally, I can begin in earnest! I've gotten the design and the easy parts are done. Now I'm going to begin work on the actual encryption and decryption. This might take a while... so keep looking for updates every now and then.

Peace and chicken grease,
-- RH-00

GEP News

I'm working on a new version of the GEP, version 1.6, which will be a complete re-write of the GEP under Visual Basic 6. You're probably asking why I'm doing this, as VB6 is an old language with no more formal support from Microsoft. There is one very simple, but very powerful reason for this; C# (and by extension all of the .Net languages) are not compiled in native machine code, they are compiled into MSIL/CIL, which is an intermediate language that is interpreted by Microsoft's own virtual machine. This makes the program run slower than one compiled under a compiled language, such as Visual Basic 6 or C/C++.


I have gathered resources and am working on getting one final library under the hood so I can still offer file compression on encryption or decryption. I can't make any guarantees as to when it will be released, suffice to say that I will release it once it is done to my liking.

Well... that's all the news I have for now, so stay tuned and stay safe out there.