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A composite output file is a heap of tiny fragments from your original data. "Tiny" means from 1 to 16 bytes. Each fragment is disguised by a random arithmetic technique. Fragments from many files are assembled in any one composite file. These fragments are in random order. Fragments from any one of your data files are dispersed across anywhere from two to sixteen files or groups of files. Lots of luck if you plan to find all the fragments, recognized them through their disguises, remove the disguises, and put all the fragments back in the right order! (if you live to a million years old, and if computers keep getting better, maybe you have a chance.)

You do not have to make up names for any of the composite output files. Output file names are deliberately meaninglessness. Management of file names is totally taken care of through the program. Scrambled file names minimize clues and patterns that might benefit a malevolent person trying to break the privacy. Output file names consist of eight characters (the first a letter, the second through eighth a letter or a digit 2... 7), with a suffix .PVT for the privacy protected archive files, and suffix .REC for the reconstitution files. You may if you wish set the first one, two, or three characters of the name of each composite output file in a privacy protected archive. By setting this prefix, you may distinguish among files from different archives.

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