Package: file
Version: 4.26-1
Severity: wishlist

Chiasmus is a encryption standard developed by the German Federal
Office for Information Security ("Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der
Informationstechnik"). 

The encrypted files usually have an extension of .xia and start with
the three letters "XIA1". I attached a sample file for your reference.

The chiasmus keys are usually stored in a file with an extension of
.xis and have the following header:
XIS
*** Aendern Sie diese Datei nicht direkt!! ***
(i.e. two lines with those characters, the key itself starts in the
next line) and are currently recogonized as "ISO-8859 text".

I confirmed these information with the developer of Chiasmus.

For more information either see 
http://www.bsi.de/produkte/chiasmus/indexeng.htm
with the english version or
http://www.bsi.de/produkte/chiasmus/index.htm
which also shows the Linux version but is only in German. 

A (German) wikipedia article is also available under
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus_(Software)

And yes, Ciasmus runs under Debian :-))

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: 
Locale: lang=de...@euro, lc_ctype=de...@euro (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL 
set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages file depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.7-18            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libmagic1              4.26-1            File type determination library us
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

file recommends no packages.

file suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information
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