In message <[log in to unmask]>, Gilles 
Schipper <[log in to unmask]> writing at 11:06:28 in his/her local time 
opines:-
>I believe that file is the Security3000 "database" containing entries 
>that SECURITY3000 utilizes to implement its functionality.
>
>If my memory serves me correctly, that "database" used to be an IMAGE 
>database in the early days of SECURITY3000.
>
>It was changed to a format created and utilized by VESOFT when HP 
>decided that IMAGE was going to be an optional product some time in the 
>1980's.
>
>That decision was reversed shortly thereafter, but VESOFT stuck with 
>their own SECURG database format in order to immunize their software 
>from any HP policies that could impact VESOFT sales.

But as we all well know, HP outflanked them on this :-)
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