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- Pretty Good Privacy v1.0 Philip Zimmermann Free
- OTHR JUN91 ENCRYPTION ENCRYPT PRIVATE ENCODE
- FILES: pgp10.sdn
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- New to SDN (Distribution in USA only)
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- Pretty Good Privacy
- RSA Public Key Cryptography for the Masses
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- Pretty Good(tm) Privacy (PGP), from Phil's Pretty Good
- Software, is a high security cryptographic software
- application for MSDOS. PGP allows people to exchange files or
- messages with privacy, authentication, and convenience.
- Privacy means only those intended to receive a message can
- read it. Authentication means 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 an powerful
- new technology called "public key" cryptography.
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- PGP combines the convenience of the Rivest-Shamir-Adleman
- (RSA) public key cryptosystem with the speed of fast
- conventional cryptographic algorithms, fast message digest
- algorithms, data compression, and sophisticated key
- management. And PGP performs the RSA functions faster than
- most other software implementations. PGP is RSA public key
- cryptography for the masses.
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- PGP does not provide any built-in modem communications
- capability. You must use a separate product such as TELIX or
- PROCOMM for that.
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- The RSA public key cryptosystem was developed at MIT with
- Federal funding from grants from the National Science
- Foundation and the Navy. It is patented by MIT (U.S. patent
- #4,405,829, issued 20 Sep 1983). A company called Public Key
- Partners (PKP) holds the exclusive commercial license to sell
- and sub-license the RSA public key cryptosystem. For
- licensing details on the RSA algorithm, you can contact Robert
- Fougner at PKP, at 408/735-6779. The author of this software
- implementation of the RSA algorithm is providing this
- implementation for educational use only. Licensing this
- algorithm from PKP is the responsibility of you, the user, not
- Philip Zimmermann, the author of this software implementation.
- The author assumes no liability for any breach of patent law
- resulting from the unlicensed use by the user of the
- underlying RSA algorithm used in this software.
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- Philip Zimmermann is a software engineer consultant with 17
- years experience, specializing in embedded real-time systems,
- cryptography, authentication, and data communications.
- Experience includes design and implementation of
- authentication systems for financial information networks,
- network data security, key management protocols, embedded
- real-time multitasking executives, operating systems, and
- local area networks.
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