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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
usually those "for pay" programs are plain-old verbatim ripoffs of Alf's tools with no credit given.
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If that is the case with the one I bought I regret to have supported a ripoff artist, but I bought it 2 years ago and hadn't been aware of a free alternative, and $30 had seemed a reasonable enough price. There are two files alfcrypto.dll and alfcrypto64.dll in the program directory, so it seems the program may indeed be Alf-based. It's a standalone tool, though (which I prefer), not a Calibre plugin, so maybe they built their own application around the decryption routine? Still, they should at least have credited the source, if they used it
(BTW, I gladly use free software -- LibreOffice, for instance -- but I'd as gladly pay money for a tool that lets me convert ebook formats without having to bother with Calibre's patronizing approach to library-building...)