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Blacksheep
08-22-2001, 10:02 AM
Is PGP secure? Rumors abound. Here are a few links that explore this subject:

PGP 6.5.8 last open source. Phil Zimmermann's statement:

http://www.strongsignals.com/security/

Scarfo and the FBI:

http://www.thestandard.com.au/articles/display/0,*44*,*4**6,00.html?inside

PGP attacks:

http://axion.physics.ubc.ca/pgp-attack.html

Crypto Log:

http://www.uni-mannheim.de/studorg/gahg/PGP/cryptolog*.html

Want more info? Use the Net's best search engine:

http://www.google.com/advanced_search

johnny
08-23-2001, 09:59 PM
what PRZ said when NAI ended open source PGP. Then I come here and... Thanks for the link, Blacksheep. I trust 7.0.* more now after reading his statement.

The article about RSA was interesting but written a "long" time ago, in ***6. Wonder what the theoretical computational time for breaking RSA is in 200*-2...?

As for Carnivore and Echelon they are facts of life and not a damn thing we can do about either of them :-(

Blacksheep
08-24-2001, 04:45 PM
I dunno if I trust NAI. I use PGP 6.5.8 downloaded from MIT:

http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html

Here's some more PGP links:

Tom McCune's PGP page: http://www.mccune.**/PGP.htm

Father Bill Morton's PGP page: http://www.clark.net/pub/rothman/morton.htm

How PGP works: http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/

PGP installation guide (PDF format requires Adobe Acrobat Reader):

http://www.pgpi.org/doc/guide/6.0/en/install/