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PGP is short for Pretty Good Privacy. It is encryption for the private things you want to keep that way and about as good as it gets for us, the peasant masses down trodden as we are by corrupt governments milking us for all we are worth. To use it you need to get the programme and generate a pair of keys. This is fairly painless. Then you can send private messages to other people using their public keys. They can only be decrypted using their private keys. When you have generated your own keys you will be able to receive encrypted signals using your own secret key. Putting your public key on the MIT register makes sense. My key is at the bottom. Some sources are under.
My address:
mike@sunray22b.netMy key's fingerprint:
29 9E 35 DE 90 77 67 4C 8C A3 ED 55 87 7D AA E2-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 6.5.8ckt http://www.ipgpp.com/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=GGQO
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
PGP Version 658
This is the last version of PGP which is open to public audit. That makes it as secure as anything is in this business. Later versions have secret parts which might have back doors in them. The NSA has had them put in before. Crypto AG in Switzerland sold compromised machines which gave the illusion of security and easy access for American spy masters.
PGP Version 658 Source Code
If you know how to write programmes using C you can judge for yourself what PGP actually does.
PGP Has a Hole
Doctor Grabbe explains all. If you know about it you can beat this pit fall.
PGP Words
QUOTE
The PGP Word List ('Pretty Good Privacy word list', also called a biometric word list for reasons explained below) is a list of words for conveying data bytes in a clear unambiguous way via a voice channel. They are analogous in purpose to the NATO phonetic alphabet used by pilots, except a longer list of words is used, each word corresponding to one of the 256 unique numeric byte values.The PGP Word List was designed in 1995 by Patrick Juola, a computational linguist, and Philip Zimmermann, creator of PGP. The words were carefully chosen for their phonetic distinctiveness, using genetic algorithms to select lists of words that had optimum separations in phoneme space........
The Zimmermann/Juola list was originally designed to be used in PGPfone, a secure VoIP application, to allow the two parties to verbally compare a short authentication string to detect a man-in-the-middle attack (MiTM). It was called a biometric word list because the authentication depended on the two human users recognizing each other's distinct voices as they read and compared the words over the voice channel, binding the identity of the speaker with the words, which helped protect against the MiTM attack.
UNQUOTE
It is an interesting idea but not very useful.
Misdirecting An Enemy
Lots of encrypted rubbish makes it difficult for them.
MIT Public Key Registry
MIT has a list of public keys. You can add yours to it.
The NSA, Crypto AG And Fraud
They cheat. It is that simple. Breaking encryption by purely technical means is much more difficult. That is why they have lots of men with heavy duty qualifications in maths, especially number theory. Being able to break in is quicker and easier.
Security
Has more on other aspects of keeping YOUR data to yourself.
MPs Told Not To Use PGP Encryption [ 4 March 2009 ]
QUOTE
MPs have been told that although they are free to install PGP on their parliamentary machines the technology is not compatible with Parliament’s remote access software, making its use impractical.
UNQUOTE
MPs are being lied to. The implication is that PGP works too well for government spies to break. This is good news for everyone if it is right.
PGP Encryption Beats Criminal Investigators So It Is Back To Basics And Torture [ 10 February 2008 ]
QUOTE
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) When Sebastien Boucher stopped at the U.S.-Canadian border, agents who inspected his laptop said they found files containing child pornography [ but they lied - Editor ].......... Now Boucher is caught in a cyber-age quandary: The government wants him to give up the password, but doing so could violate his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination by revealing the contents of the files.
UNQUOTE
Secret Squirrel, the NSA, GCHQ et cetera are another issue. The answer to that question is classified TOP SECRET or higher. They would probabbly claim that it was not torture. Boucher was guilty as Hell.
Window Version of GPG
The Linux version of PGP has been ported
over to Windows. It runs on Vista, the new version of Windows that has
the compatibility problems built in to screw you. It is open source and
subject to checking by anyone with time and a good
background. AND it is a freebie. Get it while you can from:-
http://www.gpg4win.org
then make sure that you have a good copy with a signature from:-
SHA1/MD5/OpenPGP-Sig
Errors
& omissions, broken links,
cock ups, over-emphasis, malice [ real or imaginary ] or whatever; if
you find any I am open to comment.
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Updated on Monday, 07 March 2011 07:15:16