[42407] in Cypherpunks
The Unofficial "PGP" Icon / Logo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bryce)
Thu Oct 26 23:56:13 1995
To: don@cs.byu.edu
Reply-To: bryce@colorado.edu
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 1995 18:18:39 MDT."
<199510270018.SAA00625@wero.byu.edu>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 21:53:14 -0600
From: Bryce <wilcoxb@nagina.cs.colorado.edu>
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don@cs.byu.edu allegedly wrote:
>
> Oh, by the way, anyone have any cool PGP/crypto icons to Inline into
> my web page? <g>
A few months ago I decided that what the world needed was a friendly-
looking "PGP" icon which we could all display everywhere and which
would catch people's attention. I quickly rejected pictures of locks,
chains, safes, keys and so forth as appealing too much to those who
go for tech and tools. I wanted something that would appeal to my
mom. I finally settled on a big-pixel ("digital") blue envelope
with a big "PGP" stamp across the seal. (Alternately I considered
having the "PGP" stamp in the upper-right-hand-corner "stamp slot",
but this wasn't as fitting a metaphor...)
After shopping around and finding nothing like it available, I sat
down at some stupid Windoze paint program and created one. It's not
very pretty (I'm a better programmer than graphic artist, I think),
but you can see it/get a copy at
<a href="http://www-ugrad.cs.colorado.edu/~wilcoxb> The Niche </a>,
my home page.
I hope someone makes a nicer-looking version soon so I can use it.
Sitting down and trying to draw a nicer-looking PGP icon is on my
(very long) list of Things To Do. I'm considering scanning a real
envelope and super-imposing the "PGP" stamp digitally, but that
would probably look even uglier...
Regards,
Bryce
signatures follow
"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."
<a href="http://ugrad-www.cs.colorado.edu/~wilcoxb/Niche.html">
bryce@colorado.edu </a>
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