What is PGP?
David
E.Nigma
In article <d0ra7c$jfl$1...@pin3.tky.plala.or.jp>
"David" <da...@breakingnews-us.com> wrote:
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| What is PGP?
Go here... http://www.pgpi.org/doc/overview/
PGP (short for Pretty Good Privacy) is a public key encryption program
originally written by Phil Zimmermann in 1991. Over the past few years,
PGP has got thousands of adherent supporters all over the globe and has
become a de-facto standard for encryption of email on the Internet. If
you don't know whether PGP is something for you, please take some time
to read Phil Zimmermann's article on why you should use PGP at
(http://www.pgpi.org/doc/whypgp/) and how PGP works. Adam Back has
written this history of PGP.
Platforms
PGP is available for many different platforms, including Windows, Unix,
MS-DOS, OS/2, Macintosh, Amiga and Atari.
Latest versions
The latest international freeware versions of PGP are 6.5.1i (Windows
95/98/NT and MacOS only) and 5.0i (other platforms). The older 2.6.3i
is still available, but you may experience incompatibility problems if
you are communicating with users of PGP 5.0 and later. You can download
the most recent versions here. However, there are many other versions
of PGP, both freeware and commercial.
Documentation
The PGP documentation is a good starting point. If you have a question
about PGP, it is probably answered in one of the many FAQs such as
http://www.pgpi.org/doc/faq/. A number of PGP books are also available.
Language support
PGP and the PGP User's Guide have been translated into many different
languages. There are also a number of non-English PGP resources
available on the Web.
Legal stuff
Contrary to what many people seem to think, PGP is perfectly legal to
use, provided that you choose the right version and don't download the
program from a site in the USA if you're somewhere else in the world.
Other PGP products
PGP is primarily used for encrypting email. PGPfone and PGPdisk are two
other products that use PGP encryption technology to secure phone calls
and encrypt disk partitions, respectively. The PGP message format has
now been standardized through RFC 2440, and in the future we will
undoubtedly see many new PGP compatible products.
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Version: N/A
iQEVAwUBQjExa9AqdZr/mrO9AQEVWAgAkyd0L4yBCq0Bf3tqYv2Qajc7+/iPoYtn
NMcErv0nCOMGMD22Yo4Nw/puIkbH+lz4UBn5JpgNLXIwt7yTWsupQCqt7bKsuS0L
Ml6gqQIvBIXFykwu9bZGDojsDnmXpXmuD8uVU0AinSvVDI1bxZUcbkt0C9OKNgv6
Pq4rt61r/wBXV3NxlmVPF/VLd9WXezBbNSRmQffIKoDTA9yZbna0K97mXywbJKw5
/8qVebjhq8PrTBklMQ05kD75wHi0aIhU5SOtQfIHGXlmOxBnXbnxhsiY6IkWw2X2
ayAEn1nMvLcdZbgOFhVjX0lxAa4CpM8/XdUU3TZNU/Zv4WJ/40+4Ig==
=l6yd
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