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- From: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (David Vincenzetti)
- Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive,alt.privacy
- Subject: Public Key Encryption program PGP *2.0* available
- Summary: PGP is available on ghost.dsi.unimi.it
- Keywords: public key encryption, RSA, secure e-mail
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.205505.7366@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 20:55:05 GMT
- Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
- Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
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- Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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- The program Pretty Good Privacy program, version 2.0, is available
- in the ~ftp/pub/crypt directory on site ghost.dsi.unimi.it.
-
- [also found at darthmouth.edu:/pub/dropoff. It was also at garbo.uwasa.fi
- yesterday, but I can't find it now. -Rich Winkel]
-
- I bet most of you already know what PGP is, anway here are two extracts
- from the documentation included in the archive:
-
- [from: readme.doc]
-
- > Pretty Good Privacy version 2.0 - READ ME FIRST
- >
- >
- > You are looking at the README file for PGP release 2.0. PGP, short for
- > Pretty Good Privacy, is a public key encryption package; with it, you
- > can secure messages you transmit against unauthorized reading and
- > digitally sign them so that people receiving them can be sure they
- > come from you.
- >
- >
-
- [from: pgpdoc1.txt]
-
- > Synopsis: PGP uses public-key encryption to protect E-mail and data
- > files. Communicate securely with people you've never met, with no
- > secure channels needed for prior exchange of keys. PGP is well
- > featured and fast, with sophisticated key management, digital
- > signatures, data compression, and good ergonomic design.
- > [...]
- > Contents
- > ========
- >
- > Quick Overview
- > Why Do You Need PGP?
- > How it Works
- > Installing PGP
- > How to Use PGP
- > To See a Usage Summary
- > Encrypting a Message
- > Signing a Message
- > Signing and then Encrypting
- > Using Just Conventional Encryption
- > Decrypting and Checking Signatures
- > Managing Keys
- > RSA Key Generation
- > Adding a Key to Your Key Ring
- > Removing a Key from Your Key Ring
- > Extracting (copying) a Key from Your Key Ring
- > Viewing the Contents of Your Key Ring
- > How to Protect Public Keys from Tampering
- > How Does PGP Keep Track of Which Keys are Valid?
- > How to Protect Secret Keys from Disclosure
- > Revoking a Public Key
- > Advanced Topics
- > Sending Ciphertext Through E-mail Channels: Radix-64 Format
- > Environmental Variable for Path Name
- > Setting Configuration Parameters: CONFIG.TXT
- > Vulnerabilities
- > Trusting Snake Oil
- > PGP Quick Reference
- > Legal Issues
- > Acknowledgments
- > About the Author
- >
- >
- >
- >
- > Quick Overview
- > =============
- >
- > Pretty Good(tm) Privacy (PGP), from Phil's Pretty Good Software, is a
- > high security cryptographic software application for MSDOS, Unix,
- > VAX/VMS, and other computers. PGP allows people to exchange files or
- > messages with privacy, authentication, and convenience. Privacy
- > means that only those intended to receive a message can read it.
- > Authentication means that messages that appear to be from a
- > particular person can only have originated from that person.
- > Convenience means that privacy and authentication are provided
- > without the hassles of managing keys associated with conventional
- > cryptographic software. No secure channels are needed to exchange
- > keys between users, which makes PGP much easier to use. This is
- > because PGP is based on a powerful new technology called "public key"
- > cryptography.
- >
- > PGP combines the convenience of the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)
- > public key cryptosystem with the speed of conventional cryptography,
- > message digests for digital signatures, data compression before
- > encryption, good ergonomic design, and sophisticated key management.
- > And PGP performs the public-key functions faster than most other
- > software implementations. PGP is public key cryptography for the
- > masses.
-
- Ciao, David
- --
- David Vincenzetti -*- System Administator and C Programmer
- Dip. di Scienze dell'Informazione, Internet: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it
- V. Comelico 41, I-20133, Milano, Italy Phone : +39 2 55006 392
- ($PK available by finger$) Fax : +39 2 55006 373
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