Encryption

Title: Encryption
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Encryption

PGP stands for "Pretty Good Privacy." It is an encryption program. What encryption does is hide information from people who do not know the "secret word" to reveal the information. Louis J. Freeh, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, says the honest have nothing to hide, and only criminals would use encryption. The honest, goes the implication, have no need of encryption. Let us think about that, for just a minute. The honest …showed first 75 words of 2691 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 2691 total…the file containing the encrypted "disk," but that will not give you any information (other than, "this is a PGP disk," but you could tell that anyway). Other TopicsAfter you get used to using PGP, you can enter the world of anonymous remailers and nyms. These let you be anonymous or pseudonymous. And some day, I will write about them. But not today. Copyright © 1999 Brian Hetrick Page last updated 21 June 1999 Send comments to the Webmaster.

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