Public Key Cryptography

I use PGP 5.0. The original PGP was developed by Philip R. Zimmerman as a political statement against governmental incursion into personal privacy. It has been enormously popular, despite the fact that it treaded on some questionable legal grounds.

MIT, RSA, and others have joined in an agreement to permit the free distribution of a modified version of the original PGP. It can be legally obtained and used within the US for noncommercial purposes. It is free, but not fully compatible with certain older versions. Everyone should switch to the newer version. MIT maintains a distribution site for PGP.

There is a huge amount of PGP information on the Web.

Feel free to use my public key below to encrypt mail that you send to me. This ensures that only I will be able to read them. 

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0
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=HNQh
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

This page last updated June 27, 2000