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 What is PGP? The Simple Aswer...
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Amateur Bodybuilder 
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PGP is a program the military used in vietnam and still use sometimes today. As I was Special Ops(Civilians refer to this as: Special Forces...or the one I hate the most Green Berets) in the US Army. You give people(friends, associates:bisuness or otherwise) your public key. The public key is just basicly a code that encodes messages that are sent that can be only decoded by the reciever or receivers' private key. They go together. It makes it impossible a third party, even the administrator of your email account to read anything that you may deem personal or incremenating. Basicly if this message was encrypted by your public key(which you would give to me), then to read all you would have to do is highlight it paste it to your clipboard and decrypt it to read it. A box opens with the decrytped(decoded) message for you to read. Once you close the box the message encrypts(encodes itself) again. It takes no time at all. It is definately worth learning. It took me about 5 minutes to instally and 15 minutes to learn. Withing an hour I was pretty good at it.As for the safety...it is unparalleled by any other available software and it is FREE!!! Most of the larger sources won't even deal with you without PGP now. So it is well worth getting also if your source has PGP it ensures your safety if your source is ever busted. If the FBI, DEA, etc., check his email they won't be able to read anything, therefore they will not have any incremenating evidence on you!!! I strongly recommend reading PGP for dummies. It is everything you need to know to use the software. Below are the links.
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Elite Bodybuilder 
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PGP is a great program! I use it daily here at work. Later, Green | ||
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Amateur Bodybuilder
Posts: 208 |
Sorry I was a little vague on some things. This goes a little further. Well actually you have a public key that you send with your emails. This allows the recipient to SEND encrpyted messages to you that only can be decoded with your private key. It doesn't allow you to send private messages to him. He must also give you his public key via email so you can send him encrypted(encoded) messages that only his private key can decrypt(decode). That is why it is important to encourage everyone to get PGP keys. Basically your PGP private key unlocks your public key...they are a matching pair. That is why you are the only one with your private key. Say for example if I wanted to post a source for a few people...then I could encrypt it with all the people's public keys I wanted to have the source and only they could use their individual private keys to "unlock" the message. It would actually be posted on the board and only they could read it!!! The potential is outrageous. I am even considering starting a whole board around this theory. I will post an example... [This message has been edited by ManOSteele (edited November 16, 2000).] |
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posted November 16, 2000 12:23 PM