Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!netcomsv!mrs From: mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Re: What happened to "Pretty Good Privacy" ?? Message-ID: <1991Jun29.035026.29229@netcom.COM> Date: 29 Jun 91 03:50:26 GMT References: <3473@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Organization: McAfee Associates Lines: 31 Greetings, I got them off of alt.sources, I think... Everything was made available on one of the alt groups. It looks like a nice program, and I checked it out. It's still available, from a number of sites I believe. (I think the WELL still has a copy of it up) It also got spread to a *LOT* of major BBS systems, very quickly. If you need a copy, I'm sure I could find a place that you could get it from. It's a *REALLY* smart program, actually. It claims to include compression, as well as two different portions of encryption. This makes it pretty secure, since it lessens the level of multiple characters, etc. If you're interested in RSA, and considering leasing it (or you think that you MIGHT be interested in leasing it, OR you're just interested in cryptology and won't use it for any real purposes) then you should grab a copy of it. To actually USE it to encrypt your mail requires that you get a license, otherwise if they catch you encrypting your mail with it they'll be Very Very Upset! Me personally, I like encryption for the fun of it. I wouldn't actually *USE* it. (After all, isn't all my mail already supposed to be private? Don't answer that!) -- Morgan Schweers -- mrs@netcom.com | Morgan Schweers | Good code, good food, good sex. Is ms@gnu.ai.mit.edu| These messages | anything else important? -- Freela Kilroy Balore | are not the +-------------------------------------- Freela | opinion of anyone.| I *AM* an AI. I'm not real...