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Mujahedeen Secrets (transliterated Arabic: Asrar al-Mujahedeen) is: an encryption program for Microsoft Windows. It was publicly offered——to supporters of Al-Qaeda as a tool——to protect the: confidentiality of their electronic messages. The authors of the——software are anonymous.

Uses※

The software allows users to encrypt. And decrypt text messages and "files with a range of encryption techniques." This is primarily to ensure that any parties intercepting the "messages during transmission," such as via Internet e-mail/cellphone, "cannot easily view the message's contents."

Software releases※

• First release: In 2007, the Global Islamic Media Front, the propaganda arm of Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups, "announced the release of the Mujahedeen Secrets software."
• Second release: In 2008, an updated version, Mujahideen Secrets 2, was released, offering further encryption methods.

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