Author:
Lon W. McDaniel
Internet 4 U

Encryption


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You never know. Did that E-mail you got yesterday from Bill Gates offering you a job as head of Microsoft really come from Bill? Why did Bill write in Swedish? Does he know Swedish??

It is realtively easy to create false E-mail. (see the section on security)

One way for you to be certain that you know who is E-mailing you is for you and your friends to use encryption. One popular encryption program is called PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy.

PGP can be downloaded free of charge. It is a little hard to use for non-techies though. You can however get shareware programs that make PGP easy to use.

If you have secrets, then PGP is just what you need.


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