🚀 go-pugleaf

crespin@nadir.uucp (Rudy Crespin) writes:

>Look into Public Key encryption. There are two _FREE_ programs out there that
>do PK encryption: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and RSAREF bases Internet Privacy
>Enhanced Mail (RIPEM). They are both available for just about any machine you 
>can think of. They allow you to send someone you have never met encrypted 
>messages without you getting together and exchanging passwords. This is done
>by a Public-Private Key pair. You give away your public key to everyone. They
>use it to encrypt messages to you. You use your private key to decrypt the
>messages. 


A sysop on our UUCP network has written a small rmail frontend that
automatically encypts mail before it feeds it to rmail. It uses PGP and
it's very user-friendly. The name of the program is PgpIt. You only have
to the public-key id on the first line, like '%nonsenso@utopia'. If it
doesn't find a public-key ID, it'll just mail the message unencrypted.
The only problem is that messages are still stored as temp-files
etcetera. I use wipefile to get around this problem.
I have tested this utility for some time and i'm very happy with it.

For more information about PgpIt, please consult with:

garfield@maas-neotek.hacktic.nl


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     Felipe Rodriquez             Hacktic Network Foundation
 nonsenso@utopia.hacktic.nl       Networking for the masses !