I have recently discovered the need for and benefits of having a method of sending and receiving secured e-mail. Out of all the products that are available, I chose the latest version of Pretty Good Privacy, PGP 5.0 for Win95. I chose this product for two reasons. First, PGP is probably the most widely used public key encryption program available, and it has an excellent record for reliability and security. Secondly, you can down-load PGP for free for non-commercial uses.
To down-load PGP outside of the United States click Oxford University, or the University of Oslo, which just added PGP version 5.0.
If you have PGP 5.0 and you need my public key, either to contact me by secure e-mail or to verify my digital signature, my public key is registered on the MIT keyserver and should be on many others as well. I am listed on the keyserver as;
Just contact the keyserver from within your encryption program and follow your program's instructions for retrieving keys. To make it simpler, I plan to have my key available here soon. As soon a I figure out how <G>.
A PGP2.6.2 Frequently Asked Questions document that answers commonly asked questions and discusses known bugs.
The October 1994 announcement of the DOS/Unix PGP 2.6.2 release.
A FAQ sheet that accompanied MIT's original release of PGP 2.6 in June, 1994. (This is out of date.)
A document that describes the file formats used by PGP.
The following sources are particularly useful, and they have links to many others:
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Last updated 27 October 1997
By Robert Joseph Honan
robertus@harbornet.com
Copyright 1997 by Robert J. Honan
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