===================================================================== XI. How do I keep my info secure (PGP / Cryptology) WHAT IS PGP? (from Belisarius) PGP stands for Pretty Good Protection, from a company called Pretty Good Software. It is a public key encryption program for MS-DOS, Unix, and Mac. You create a key pair. One private (secret) key and a public key. The keys are different parts of the whole. I distribute my public key and anyone who wants can grab it ad it to their PGP keyring. Then when they want to send me a message they encrypt it with PGP and my public key and then send it. Only I can decrypt it because you need my secret key to decode it. (Trust me you won't get my secret key) That is PGP. Please use it if you want to communicate anything of a ahhhh....sensitive manner. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ WHERE CAN I GET PGP? (from an archie search) FTP sites for PGP=Pretty Good Privacy Public Encryption System ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ======== Unix PGP ======== Host 130.149.17.7 Location: /pub/local/ini/security FILE -rw-rw-r-- 651826 Apr 5 1993 pgp22.tar.Z Host arthur.cs.purdue.edu Location: /pub/pcert/tools/unix/pgp FILE -r--r--r-- 651826 Mar 7 1993 pgp22.tar.Z Host coombs.anu.edu.au Location: /pub/security/cypher FILE -r--r--r-- 651826 Nov 4 22:28 pgp22.tar.Z ========== MS-DOS PGP ========== Host zero.cypher.com Location: /pub/pgp FILE pgp23a.zip ================ MS-DOS PGP SHELL ================ Host athene.uni-paderborn.de Location: /pcsoft/msdos/security FILE -rw-r--r-- 65160 Aug 9 20:00 pgpshe22.zip Host nic.switch.ch Location: /mirror/msdos/security FILE -rw-rw-r-- 65160 Aug 9 22:00 pgpshe22.zip Host plains.nodak.edu Location: /pub/aca/msdos/pgp FILE -rw-r--r-- 65430 Nov 26 18:28 pgpshe22.zip ======= Mac PGP ======= Host plaza.aarnet.edu.au Location: /micros/mac/info-mac/util FILE -r--r--r-- 323574 Apr 26 1993 pgp.hqx Host sics.se Location: /pub/info-mac/util FILE -rw-rw-r-- 323574 Nov 5 11:20 pgp.hqx Host sumex-aim.stanford.edu Location: /info-mac/util FILE -rw-r--r-- 323574 Apr 26 1993 pgp.hqx