I am sure that all of you are aware that PEM has a competitor, called PGP.
For those who don't, here is a pointer.
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Path:
linus.mitre.org!linus!think.com!ames!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.p
urdue.edu!sparkyfs.erg.sri.com!csl.sri.com!boucher
From: boucher(_at_)csl(_dot_)sri(_dot_)com (Peter K. Boucher)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: PGP Users?
Date: 5 Nov 1992 00:35:20 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International
Lines: 32
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <1d9q88INNoka(_at_)roche(_dot_)csl(_dot_)sri(_dot_)com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: roche.csl.sri.com
Keywords: safe? effective? legal?
DISCLAIMER: The following information is provided as a public
service. It is explicitly NOT a commercial advertisement, and
does not in any way represent, express or imply any policy or
viewpoint of SRI Interantional.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) 2.0 is a secure, freeware public-key
data encryption tool for everyone, from Pretty Good Software
Inc. and available from FTP sites everywhere. Get it and USE it!
Assert your right to private communication, and protect your
sensitive data. Sites carrying PGP 2.0 include princeton.edu
(/pub/pgp20) and pencil.cs.missouri.edu (/pub/crypt).
Pretty Good Software can be contacted via email; send queries
to Philip R. Zimmerman (prz(_at_)sage(_dot_)cgd(_dot_)ucar(_dot_)edu), but
please don't
ask him to send you a copy; get it via FTP.
--
Public key for Peter K. Boucher follows:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.0
mQCNAirzn4kAAAED/jYJzrX6+LJQVinRMl+tOHuFkv2kVq8q+WRAZ4YwvQ/tAV/H
1uf2ZORPRzoe494A4CV6uNT8Mh6LGa1pJCStfJ24jTWMLBwxexG7aG4AVljVxtlF
+BkaRX7varf4Qlh2jkftG8Nwyyht8nGvqP+LttGsQO4Xc6QNty53jPScSQb3AAUR
tCZQZXRlciBLLiBCb3VjaGVyIDxib3VjaGVyQGNzbC5zcmkuY29tPokAlQIFECr4
HDNcTaGvtDVJYwEBsKAD/Rs57IMseAM8Kc8JKw+/CUtLJuuVke30VgXEPMQr5/LJ
ENOfgsDcI2fR42fpovGqb0rCR4dyrzAkM+3rk5LzJWY1Cke7/rU8pu5K+5oT1RQs
12Jk6ZI/NjTG+NoKrBWPzdh6DnYaj5vECs3OKzKBgbr+EChKcjVCO6zC8kgo/8FT
=9PSv
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Regards, -Rob-
Robert W. Shirey, The MITRE Corporation, Mail Stop Z202
7525 Colshire Dr., McLean, Virginia 22102-3481 USA
shirey(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org * tel 703-883-7210 * fax 703-883-1397