PGP Is 10 Years Old 19
mod you later writes: "Wired is reporting that PGP is ten years old - and is giving a summary of the growth and political issues that PGP has gone through." Congratulations to Phil Zimmerman for the courage to release it despite opposition from various Official People, too. Has PGP changed your life?
PGP has absolutely changed my life (Score:1)
JMR
(Speaking for myself, once again, but at least I'm finally off the topic of e-gold tipjars for musicians!)
I can't resist (Score:2)
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Re:It's a shame . . . (Score:2)
Re:I can't resist (Score:2)
I had assumed that good E-mail clients supporting PGP natively would emerge. Pronto Secure fit that bill but there was some big anti-Pronto thing in alt.security.pgp so they cancelled the project. Its unfortunate since I loved their IMAP support too.
Re:It's a shame . . . (Score:2)
I know... (Score:2)
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- (Score:1)
owEBsQBO/4kAlQMFADseMV0VXi6AwKjLEQEBpFkEAIHu0km
koC0ZBfHGQAr8GCm2ZkkGhJiPktsMvvV8JqPSKy5dQ4VSpF
YJsrfZX7tzFxtwCojAJDTJzzJQu0Uk4pTItpH51D3R9gpsT
5F7FtMLKHL3m+51dOvFMrBdiA21zZwAAAABZZXMsIGl0IGh
=rf2P
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
Re:A secret message for your 10th birthday... (Score:1)
Great quote from the PGP books (Score:1)
"If all the personal computers in the world-260 million-were put to work on a single PGP-encrypted message, it would still take an estimated 12 million times the age of the universe, on average, to break a single message." -- William Crowell, Deputy Director, Nastional Security Agency, March 20, 1997.
I wonder what this 'guestimation' would be now, considering that personal computers are now in the GHz range...
NO SPORK
25th post: 25=5x5! Hail Eris! (Score:1)
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Weak encryption (Score:1)
PGP MS-DOS (Score:1)
Not just a pain in the arse on its own, but also a pain that I couldn't ever find a suitable plugin for .qwk and BlueWave (I think that's what the FidoNet [fidonet.org]-compatible offline BBS e-mail reader I was using was called). Shelling to the command prompt was never so annoying, unfortunately.
Ah, those were the days. At least PGP in Win32 likes grabbing stuff you've sent to the keyboard as its lowest common denominator if you can't get its plugins to work, no more command prompts. :)
Re:I can't resist (Score:1)
I'm not wanting to be obnoxious, but I don't see newbies bothering without that Idiots book. After all, Microsoft [choke] want people to sign up for something like 30- or 60-day sample certs and think that people will pay for 1-year certs. And S/MIME, too.
S/MIME I don't like so much; I wish Microsoft would incorporate other schemes. Feet in both camps for them, too.
Of course, I figure that politics probably won't ever allow that. :)
It's a shame . . . (Score:2)
PDGP (Score:1)
Miko O'Sullivan
Re:I can't resist (Score:1)
Re:It's a shame . . . but not a surprise (Score:1)
A secret message for your 10th birthday... (Score:1)
"unccl oveguqnl, ctc!"
To unencrypt, copy & paste your secret message at rot13.com [rot13.com]. Oh, and ignore my sig--Phil will explain it to you when you are a little older...
Re:It's a shame . . . (Score:1)