Macpgp Guide

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 17:46:34 -0800 From: qwerty@netcom.com (Xenon) Subject: "Here's How to MacPGP!" guide Here's the latest version (2.7) of my "Here's How to MacPGP!" guide, to replace /info-mac/info/macpgp-guide-18.txt. Hey Mac user, having too much fun? Don't want your plans made public? You're sending e-mail on "postcards" if you don't have the free public key encryption program PGP. You heard about it in the news; here's your easy guide to getting and using it. It will get non-Mac users started too. -=Xenon=- <qwerty@netcom.com> Send mail to qwerty@netcom.com with Subject "Bomb me!", for my "Here's How to MacPGP!" guide (this document) and Gary Edstrom's PGP FAQ. If you received this unexpectedly, it means I found your post on Usenet or elsewhere asking about PGP, or I have made a mistake. People can now get these by anonymous ftp to netcom.com in /pub/gbe and /pub/qwerty as well. -=Xenon=- Note: Don't try to get MacPGP from the ftp site soda.berkeley.edu, since it is mislabelled as being a Mac BinHex file, but it happens to also be Unix gzipped, without being labelled as such (no .gz at the end). They are being slow about fixing this. Also: ViaCrypt should be coming out with a licenced MacPGP version. I suggest you buy it when it is available. It would be nice to get over this patents stigma. Archie search for macpgp2.3 ftp sites, done 2-20-94: Host athene.uni-paderborn.de Location: /unix/network/security FILE -rw-r--r-- 422851 macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx Host cs.huji.ac.il Location: /pub/security/pgp/2.3A FILE -r--r--r-- 422851 macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx Host ghost.dsi.unimi.it Location: /pub/security/crypt FILE -rw-r--r-- 422851 macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx Host isy.liu.se Location: /pub/misc/pgp/2.3A FILE -rw-r--r-- 422851 macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx Host ftp.luth.se Location: /pub/mac/appl/encryption FILE -rw-r--r-- 422900 macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx Host ftp.cc.adfa.oz.au (131.236.1.2) Location: /pub/security/pgp23 FILE -rw-r--r-- 422885 macpgp2.3.cpt.hqx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hey Mac user you're sending e-mail on "postcards" if you don't have PGP. You heard about it in the news; here's.... How to MacPGP: Version 2.7 (Feb. 19, '94) PGP will encrypt files so not even crazy people with supercomputers can decrypt them. You write e-mail on a word processor, encrypt it using a someone's public key, and send it off. They use their private key to decrypt it. Public keys are just that; give yours out freely. Once a person encrypts a message with your public key, not even they can read it again. Only you, using your private key. Phil Zimmerman's PGP is the grassroots alternative to the Clipper Chip, which gives the government your secret key. I will send the PGP FAQ and this guide to anyone who sends mail to qwerty@netcom.com with Subject "Bomb me!". [Non-Mac users: READ THIS, and the "PGP FAQ" by Gary B. Edstrom (available on alt.security.pgp or…