RE: Rot 13
RE: Rot 13
- Subject: RE: Rot 13
- From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 13:32:51 -0300
At 11:43 AM -0400 02/07/01, Bourque, Jason wrote:
PGP???
PGP = Pretty Good Privacy. It's the name of an encryption
application. This is serious encryption software that uses
encoding/decoding "keys", public and private key pairs, to allow you
to exchange information with someone such that it can't be read by
others. Anyone who doesn't have the key and is trying to decode the
message will require a fairly significant computational effort to
decode it. You aren't going to crack a PGP encoded message in a
Saturday afternoon, unless you have the resources of government or
some spy agency behind you.
It's pretty secure encoding. Secure enough that the US government
didn't want others using it and would not allow export of the strong
version of PGP to countries outside of the US (Canada was an
exception). I'm not sure if that embargo was lifted recently or not,
but it used to be in force. I seem to recall reading something in the
last few months about it, but can't recall now what it said.
Jason-- Learning as I go : -)
Aren't we all? I know I am.
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