Hi Sam,
you wrote on 11.01.00 to "Re: Secure web sites":
SWH> What I mean to say here is that I cannot think of any method by which
SWH> sender and receiver can transmit secret messages to each other over
SWH> public channels of communication with any reasonable level of
SWH> security unless both parties have previously agreed on an
SWH> encryption/decryption key.
O.K. - my original answer to this was much longer, but due to this
f***ing Fido-Gateway to Babylon (meaning: to foreign countries outside
of Germany), my answers to this list seem to take 2-3 days each, and
so I shortened it, because you already got the correct answers to
your question.
I looked into the documentation of PGP 2.6.3i and found these links
that may be a further information for you and anyone else who is
interested in that topic (taken from the file "readme.1st"):
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I WANT TO KNOW MORE!
If you want to find out more about PGP and encryption in general, there are a
number of resources available, both on paper and in electronic form. Here are
a few, to get you started:
WWW:
The International PGP Home Page
http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/
Fran Litterio's PGP Page (from the Virtual Library)
http://world.std.com/~franl/pgp/pgp.html
The Official Bug List for MIT PGP 2.6.2
http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/pgp-faq.html
FTP:
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/pgp/
ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp/
ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt/PGP/
DOCs:
http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/doc.shtml
http://www.pegasus.esprit.ec.org/people/arne/pgp.html
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/pgp/doc/
ftp://ftp.rhein.de/pub/peti/
FAQs:
PGP 2.6.3i FAQ
http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/FAQ.shtml
PGP FAQs from alt.security.pgp
http://www.prairienet.org/~jalicqui/pgpfaq.txt
ftp://ftp.prairienet.org/pub/providers/pgp/pgpfaq.txt
Where to Get the Latest PGP Program FAQ
ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/pgp-faq/where-is-PGP.Z
Newsgroups:
alt.anonymous discussion of anonymity and anon remailers
alt.anonymous.messages for anonymous encrypted message transfer
alt.privacy.clipper Clipper, Capstone, Skipjack, Key Escrow
alt.security general security discussions
alt.security.pgp discussion of PGP
alt.security.ripem discussion of RIPEM
alt.security.keydist key distribution via Usenet
alt.society.civil-liberty general civil liberties, including privacy
comp.compression discussion of compression algorithms
comp.org.eff.news news reports from EFF
comp.org.eff.talk discussion of EFF related issues
comp.patents discussion of S/W patents, including RSA
comp.risks some mention of crypto and wiretapping
comp.society.privacy general privacy issues
comp.security.announce announcements of security holes
misc.legal.computing software patents, copyrights, computer laws
sci.crypt methods of data encryption/decryption
sci.math general math discussion
talk.politics.crypto general talk on crypto politics
Books:
The Official PGP User's Guide
by Philip R. Zimmermann
MIT Press 1995
ISBN 0-262-74017-6
216 pp. $14.95
PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
by Simson Garfinkel
O'Reilly & Associates 1994
ISBN 1-56592-098-8
430 pp. $24.95
Protect Your Privacy: The PGP User's Guide
by William Stallings
Prentice Hall PTR 1995
ISBN 0-13-185596-4
302 pp. $19.95
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C
2nd Edition
by Bruce Schneier
John Wiley & Sons 1996
ISBN 0-471-11709-9
E-Mail Security with PGP and PEM: How to Keep Your Electronic Mail Private
by Bruce Schneier
John Wiley & Sons 1995
ISBN 0-471-05318-X
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ZZee yah, Hans-Juergen
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