Hi all,
Sorry about the previouse message - forgot to turn off the signature -
seems most of you can not read that message.
Just felt like telling all of you about PGP
Ever thought about wether the one that you receive an email from is the one
he or she says he is? Well, of course there is the VeriSign company that is
used by Netscape and MS Outlook and alikes. Still, that costs .. about $10 a
year.
But then there is also PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). They've got a freeware
version, that now works both with Eudora and MS Outlook 98. Messages can be
encrypted or just signed. But what's more, you can set up several virtual
disks which are in their turn encrypted. Perfect for hiding your private
stuff on a shared computer.
PGP uses 2 keys - a private and a public key. The private key is the one you
keep - stuff encrypted with this key can only be opened by the public one.
Therefore the public one is to be shared with the world. Messages encrypted
using the public key can only opened by you, using your private key.
And of course, there may be hackers that can crack also this system .....
but somewhere all ends :-)
So, in case you need to send any private, naughty, sensitive, prohibited,
financial or even creditcard information - this would be a nice asset.
The program can be found and downloaded here: http://www.pgpi.com/
Bas Vogel
basss@bart.nl
+31 651 065788
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