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From: [e-mail] (Sara Winge)
Newsgroups: alt.books.technical
Subject: New O'Reilly PGP book
Date: 6 Jan 1995 11:20:00 -0800


                PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
                  By Simson Garfinkel
                1st Edition December 1994
          430 pages, ISBN 1-56592-098-8, $24.95

     We have just released PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, a guide to this
free, widely available, and highly effective encryption program.  PGP
(which, indeed, stands for Pretty Good Privacy) provides protection for
files and electronic mail.  Written by Phil Zimmermann and released in
1991, PGP works on virtually every platform and has become very popular
both in the U.S. and abroad.
     PGP uses state-of-the-art public key cryptography to authenticate
messages, as well as keep them secret. With PGP, you can digitally sign
a message when you send it. By checking the digital signature at the
other end, the recipient can be sure that the message was not changed
during transmission and that the message actually came from you. PGP
offers a popular alternative to U.S.  government initiatives like the
Clipper Chip because, unlike Clipper, it does not allow the government
or any other outside agency access to your secret keys.
     Author Simson Garfinkel has crafted both a readable technical
users guide and a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at cryptography
and privacy. Part 1 of the book gives an overview of PGP; Part 2
provides background on cryptography, battles against public key patents
and U.S. government export restrictions, and other aspects of the
ongoing public debates about privacy and free speech; Part 3 describes
how to use PGP: protecting files and email, creating and using keys,
signing messages, certifying and distributing keys, and using key
servers. The detailed Appendices explain how to get PGP from publicly
available sources and how to install it on various platforms. The book
is loaded with actual examples showing how to use PGP's many features.

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