Re: New 2 Cryptography

From: Paul Crowley (paul@JUNKCATCHER.ciphergoth.org)
Date: 02/07/03 

From: Paul Crowley <paul@JUNKCATCHER.ciphergoth.org>
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 02:25:09 GMT

beefdiaper@hotmail.com (Palimpsest) writes:

> Hello. I've recently developed an interest in the science of
> cryptography and I thought I'd post here to ask a few questions. Where
> is a good place to start if I'm interested in encrypting my personal
> data, i.e. emails, personal info, and typed letters? I'm aware of PGP
> (although I've never used it, and it's probably kid-stuff to most of
> you)

The only problem I know of with PGP is that it's not open source. Use
its open source sister, GnuPG, and you're using crypto that has a lot
of expert approval. http://www.gnupg.org/ 

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