Related Links: PGP, Cryptography, and Security
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About Cryptography
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- Crypto-Gram
Newsletter
- "Cryptogram is a free monthly e-mail newsletter on computer security
and cryptography from Bruce Schneier (author of Applied Cryptography,
inventor of Blowfish
and Twofish [encryption
algorithms], CTO and founder of Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., general
crypto pundit and occasional crypto curmudgeon)."
- Why Cryptography is
Harder than It Looks
- Also by Bruce Schneier.
- Index of Cryptography Papers
Available Online
- From Bruce Schneier's company, Counterpane
Internet Security, Inc.
- How PGP Works
- The intro to cryptography from PGP.
- Proof of WHO, WHAT,
and WHEN in Electronic Commerce
- By Charles R. Merrill, from the American Bar Association.
- Why Is Certification Harder
Than It Looks?
- By Ed Gerck.
- RSA Lab's Crypto FAQ
- All you need to know about cryptography from the people who brought the modern version of it to us.
- Cryptography FAQ Index
- This is the FAQ from the Usenet email groups on cryptography; it has more detailed info about cryptography than you'll ever want to know, including the mathematics behind it. It's dated, but the we're talking basics here.
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About PGP
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- PGP Desktop at UIC
- Installing and using the UIC-licensed PGP Whole Disk Encryption (PGP WDE).
- PGP-related FAQs
- A list of PGP-related FAQs, from the International
PGP Home Page.
- PGP Documentation
- The International PGP Home Page also
has online copies of much of PGP's official documentation, including the User's
Guide and Phil Zimmermann's "Why do you need PGP?". And, being an
international site, they have a lot of it in a lot of different languages.
- Why do you need PGP?
- by Phil Zimmermann. Phil Zimmermann is the original creator of PGP and is a pretty interesting guy. Phil Zimmermann's home page.
- PGP Vulnerabilities
- No data system is infallible. This list of the ways that PGP can be circumvented
is interesting both in specific -- as it applies to PGP -- and in general,
to see what lengths some people are willing to go to steal information.
- PGP Web of Trust Statistics
- by Neal McBurnett of Lucent Technologies and the IETF.
- PGP Timeline
- The site this FAQ is on leaves a bit to be desired, but its PGP history
and its list of PGP acronyms is interesting.
- PGP Corporation
- Was purchased by Symantec.
- Information Technology Focus: Cyptography Resources
- As the name implies, information and links about cryptography. It's quite interesting.
- DMOS open directory project's PGP directory
- A nice listing of Web pages about PGP.
- Best Practices: PGP WDE - PGP Desktop 10
- Best practices to use prior to performing PGP Whole Disk Encryption.
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Encrypting Email
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The UIC site-licensed version PGP Desktop does not include the email portions of PGP Desktop. If you treat the email message as a file, you can used it to protect email, however -- the UIC site-licensed version of PGP Desktop only knows about PGP Desktop keys. You cannot use it to encrypt email for people whose keys are not kepts in PGP Desktop.
If you only encrypt email for your colleagues at UIC, and they all use the UIC version of PGP Desktop, then you're set. Otherwise, go to About.com's page below and select a email encryption tool that suits the way you do email. I installed Engmail to work with Thunderbird and it works great.
About.com's Secure Your Emails and Protect Your Privacy Through Encryption page
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How to Use PGP
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The best source is PGP Corp.'s documentation, which comes in PDF form with
PGP Desktop.
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About S/MIME and OpenPGP
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- S/MIME and OpenPGP
- From the Internet Mail Consortium. A summary
of and comparison between S/MIME and OpenPGP. Very readable.
- An Open
Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (OpenPGP)
- This one I didn't read, but it is the home page for the IETF
working group on OpenPGP. As such, it's the resource for OpenPGP.
- S/MIME Working Group
- And here is the home page for the IETF
S/MIME working group.
- About.com's Secure Your Emails and Protect Your Privacy Through Encryption page
- Links to articles on email encryption, including S/MIME and OpenPGP.
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About Online Internet Security
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If you have a PC at work or at home that has a static IP address (if you're
on the UIC campus network or you use DSL or a cable modem, then you do), you
should look into these:
- Head Off
PC Hack Attacks
- by Preston Gralla, ZDNet (ZDNet is the PC Magazine folks.); also Web
attacks: Are ISPs doing enough?
- Internet Connection Security for
Windows Users and ShieldsUp free security scan
- by Steve Gibson, Gibson Research Corporation
And these security scans scared you just a bit, check out: ZoneLabs Integrity Desktop.
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Other Stuff
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- PasswordVault
- Do
you have too many passwords to remember? Then you might be interested in PasswordVault, a simple program designed to ease the burden of remembering all of your University passwords, Mac, Windows, or Linux passwords, and Web passwords, by securely storing all your passwords on your desktop machine or, with its companion program, PasswordVault2Go, a portable device. No matter how many passwords you store, you only need to remember your master password to access all of them.
You can download PasswordVault and PasswordVault2Go from the
University of Illinois Webstore at
no cost.
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