[656] in IS Home Pages
Re: PGP stock answers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Griffith)
Thu Jul 1 13:18:29 1999
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Message-Id: <v04020a0db3a151f2c6dc@[18.152.1.189]>
In-Reply-To: <v04020a01b3a1508f2d42@[18.152.0.75]>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:18:23 -0400
To: Alicia Allen <iggy@mit.edu>, is-home@mit.edu
From: Chris Griffith <cg@MIT.EDU>
Alicia,
I agree that an updated MIT page would be ideal.
In the mean time, I'm VERY hesitant to send people to a page with software
that's WAY out of date. The Mac client on the MIT page is version 2.6.2,
circa 1995. The Mac client on PGPi's page is 6.0.2 circa 1998. The 2.6.2
version is old it would probably crash my Mac if I installed it.
One other point: as far as I know, there's nothing "MIT-specific" about
PGP. (Or is there?). The software doesn't rely on Kerberos or any other
other weird things we use.
Chris
At 1:07 PM -0400 7/1/99, Alicia Allen wrote:
>It is the only place with even close to correct MIT information.
>I am also looking into seeing if we could get someone from pubs to pay
>these pages a little attention. I am very hesitant to send people to a
>non-MIT site.
>
>Alicai
>
>At 1:04 PM -0400 7/1/99, Chris Griffith wrote:
>>Bear in mind that the PGP page in the network locker is out of date (last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
>>
>>
>>>>Mime-Version: 1.0
>>>>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
>>>>
>>>>----------------------------------------------
>>>>Alicia Allen iggy@mit.edu
>>>>
>>>>MIT Resnet Coordinator (617) 253-0191
>>>>MIT Network Security N42-140
>>>>----------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>----------------------------------------------
>Alicia Allen iggy@mit.edu
>
>MIT Resnet Coordinator (617) 253-0191
>MIT Network Security N42-140
>----------------------------------------------
