I recently recieved a file. Its extension is .bfe. I am unfamiliar with this type of file and it appears that the file is encrypted. I got the file from a website that I believe was written using UNIX. I am not sure if this is relevant. I have tried downloading a program called bcrypt but was unable to use it.? I don't think the file is password protected and it appears to be a fairly small file. If anyone could help, that would be great.

not sure the extension is even valid http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileFormatA/0,289933,sid9,00.html

it is a valid encrypted file,but not a file that can be opened from any program, that is why the .bfe is not listed on any sites... but you must decrypt it to get the valid file from with in it...it is not that you are unable to use the bcrypt,you have to decrypt their license with the password of 'eggheads' so yea your file is encrypted with a password you just need to break the encryption with bcrypt, here check out this site, this is where i found most of the info for your situation... http://bcrypt.sourceforge.net/ Complete Computer Service Inc. NW Indiana

Thank you for the suggestions. I had previously checked that website and had downloaded everything I thought I needed to run the program. However, either I didn't download everything (possible) needed, or I just don't know how to use the program (highly possible) :) If anyone could help me further with the steps that I would need to take in properly downloading and then correctly using the program I would really appreciate it. This is very frustrating :(

I downloaded bcrypt and also downloaded the two files that are used to check system compatability. Bcrypt worked to decrypt the two sample files with the eggheads password. I tried it on my file and it did not work. Could the password be different? Thank you again for all of your help.

The reason for encrypting a file is to make it unaccessible to persons that don't have the correct code for decrypting it. So most certainly you will not be able to decrypt it by just using a program without the exact "passphrase" used to encrypt it. Even if this probably is the encrypterion program that produced the file in question. Nigel

Thank you for all of your suggestions. I was able to use bcrypt to decrypt the file and extract the information that i needed. Thank you agian for all of your help.