ENCRYPTION .... Coded messages, and things ... using that to proove that an e-mail came from you.
It's actually more secure than a normal signature!
A public spirited bloke did a hell of a lot of work to develope encryption software for the ordinary people to use. Usually that stuff is only for governments and they get quite dark about ordinary people using codes. They want to be able to read what people are saying. Wouldn't you if you were a government? ..... and they can't practically read messages encoded by his software.
Am I beign cynical?
If this is starting to sound like paranoia then you have to come around to a certain way of thinking that
looks skeptically at the way the world works .... who runs the world we live in ... what would they really
be interested in .... the things that go against what you learn in the media and the normal sources of education.
That is a lot of thinking and it will take time, wisdom and freedom of spirit. You have to have your own mind.
Anyway, encryption can be used to prove that a message came from a particular person. You need special software to handle all this technology, and that bloke, Phill Zimmerman, put together an encryption scheme that is extremely hard to crack. It seems, in spite of rumours, that the top US code cracking departement has to spend too much computer time on this to make cracking these codes feasible.
is the name of this encryption software for the masses.
Phil Zimmerman is regarded as a hero. All he did is something that dearly had to be done. Something for the little people - the pawns of society - you and me.
Pretty Good Privacy, the initials PGP are mentioned as if you are "in the know". People say "my PGP key is on my web site"
What the hell is this about? PGP works by getting peoples "public keys", a file full of numbers, and using that key to encode messages to them (assuming you have PGP software and the familiarity to use it properly).
Where to get PGP?
See the International PGP mirror sites at
www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/
Where to get information?
Download the Latest PGP FAQ by FTP from
ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/pgp-faq/where-is-PGP.Z
A user freindly interface for PGP is at Net Services.