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- From: nonsenso@utopia.hacktic.nl (Felipe Fodriquez)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Mail encryption programm for WAFFLE?
- Message-ID: <gate.u4HyXB1w165w@utopia.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 18:36:40 GMT
- References: <J2lVrAKKBh107h@nadir.uucp>
- Organization: Hack-Tic Network Foundation
- NewsSoftware: Rnf 0.73b
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- crespin@nadir.uucp (Rudy Crespin) writes:
-
- >Look into Public Key encryption. There are two _FREE_ programs out there that
- >do PK encryption: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and RSAREF bases Internet Privacy
- >Enhanced Mail (RIPEM). They are both available for just about any machine you
- >can think of. They allow you to send someone you have never met encrypted
- >messages without you getting together and exchanging passwords. This is done
- >by a Public-Private Key pair. You give away your public key to everyone. They
- >use it to encrypt messages to you. You use your private key to decrypt the
- >messages.
-
-
- A sysop on our UUCP network has written a small rmail frontend that
- automatically encypts mail before it feeds it to rmail. It uses PGP and
- it's very user-friendly. The name of the program is PgpIt. You only have
- to the public-key id on the first line, like '%nonsenso@utopia'. If it
- doesn't find a public-key ID, it'll just mail the message unencrypted.
- The only problem is that messages are still stored as temp-files
- etcetera. I use wipefile to get around this problem.
- I have tested this utility for some time and i'm very happy with it.
-
- For more information about PgpIt, please consult with:
-
- garfield@maas-neotek.hacktic.nl
-
-
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