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Re: PGP stock answers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Griffith)
Thu Jul 1 13:04:40 1999
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Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:04:31 -0400
To: iggy@mit.edu, is-home@mit.edu
From: Chris Griffith <cg@MIT.EDU>
Bear in mind that the PGP page in the network locker is out of date (last
mod 1997).
I don't know if this should be canonical "right" answer, but if someone
asked me for PGP, I would direct them to:
http://www.pgpi.com/
pgpi.com has versions for Mac OS, Windows, UNIX, VMS and several other OS'es.
Chris
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>>Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:03:39 -0400
>>To: rccstock@mit.edu
>>From: Alicia Allen <iggy@MIT.EDU>
>>Subject: PGP stock answers
>>
>>Hi,
>>I think that under Network we should have a section called PGP and fill it
>>with some PGP stock answers...
>>
>>
>>Where can I find out more about PGP at MIT?
>>
>>http://web/network/pgp.html
>>
>>
>>
>>What is PGP?
>>
>>PGP or Pretty Good (TM) Privacy is a high-security cryptographic software
>>application that allows people to exchange messages with both privacy and
>>authentication.
>>
>> Privacy means that only those intended to receive a message can read it.
>>By providing the ability to encrypt messages, PGP provides protection
>>against anyone eavesdropping on the network. Even if a packet is
>>intercepted, it will be unreadable to the snooper. Authentication ensures
>>that a message appearing to be from a particular person can have originated
>>from that person only, and that the message has not been altered. In
>>addition to its support for messages, PGP also enables you to encrypt files
>>stored on your computer.
>>
>>
>>There might be more in the future, but this will do for now...
>>
>>thanks!
>>Alicia
>>
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>>Alicia Allen iggy@mit.edu
>>
>>MIT Resnet Coordinator (617) 253-0191
>>MIT Network Security N42-140
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