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- WHERE TO GET THE PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY PROGRAM (PGP) FAQ
-
- Revised 11 February 1996
-
- Disclaimer -- I haven't recently verified all of the information in
- this file, and much of it is probably out of date.
-
- For questions not covered here, please read the documentation
- that comes with PGP, get one of the books mentioned below, or search for
- other relevant FAQ documents at rtfm.mit.edu and on the alt.security.pgp
- news group.
-
- WHAT IS THE LATEST VERSION OF PGP?
-
- Viacrypt PGP (commercial version): 2.7.1 (4.0 is due out Real Soon Now)
-
- MIT & Philip Zimmermann (freeware, USA-legal): 2.6.2
-
- Staale Schumacher's International variant: 2.6.3i for non-USA; 2.6.3 for USA
-
-
- WHERE CAN I GET VIACRYPT PGP?
-
- Just call 800-536-2664 and have your credit card handy.
-
-
- WHERE IS PGP ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB?
-
- http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp-form.html
- (U. S. PGP primary distribution site)
-
- http://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone
- (PGP Fone primary distribution site)
-
- http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp
- (International PGP primary distribution site)
-
- http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/cypherpunks/home.html
-
-
- WHERE CAN I FTP PGP IN NORTH AMERICA?
-
- If you are in the USA or Canada, you can get PGP by following the
- instructions in any of:
-
- ftp://net-dist.mit.edu/pub/PGP/README
- ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README.MPJ
- ftp://miyako.dorm.duke.edu/pub/GETTING_ACCESS
- ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/pgp/
- ftp://ftp.gibbon.com/pub/pgp/README.PGP
- ftp://ftp.wimsey.bc.ca/pub/crypto/software/README
-
- WHERE IS PGP ON COMPUSERVE?
-
- GO NCSAFORUM. Follow the instructions there to gain access to Library 12:
- Export Controlled.
-
- AOL
-
- Go to the AOL software library and search "PGP" or ftp from
- ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/cypherpunks/pgp or another site listed above.
- It is possible to get PGP from ftp sites with hidden directories with the
- following trick: (1) View the README file with the hidden directory name in
- it, then quickly (2) Start a new ftp connection, specifiying the hidden
- directory name with the ftp site's address, like
- ftp.csn.net/mpj/I_will_not_export/crypto_xxxxxxx (where the xxxxxxx is
- replaced with the current character string).
-
- WHAT BULLETIN BOARD SYSTEMS CARRY PGP?
-
- MANY BBS carry PGP. The following carry recent versions of PGP and
- allow free downloads of PGP.
-
- US
-
- 303-343-4053 Hacker's Haven, Denver, CO
- 303-772-1062 Colorado Catacombs BBS, Longmont CO
- 8 data bits, 1 stop, no parity, up to 28,800 bps.
- Use ANSI terminal emulation.
- For free access: log in with your own name, answer the questions.
- 314-896-9309 The KATN BBS
- 317-887-9568 Computer Virus Research Center (CVRC) BBS, Indianapolis, IN
- Login First Name: PGP Last Name: USER Password: PGP
- 501-791-0124, 501-791-0125 The Ferret BBS, North Little Rock, AR
- Login name: PGP USER Password: PGP
- 506-457=0483 Data Intelligence Group Corporation BBS
- 508-668-4441 Emerald City, Walpole, MA
- 601-582-5748 CyberGold BBS
- 612-690-5556, !CyBERteCH SeCURitY BBS! Minneapolis MN
- 914-667-4567 Exec-Net, New York, NY
- 915-587-7888, Self-Governor Information Resource, El Paso, Texas
-
- GERMANY
-
- +49-781-38807 MAUS BBS, Offenburg - angeschlossen an das MausNet
- +49-521-68000 BIONIC-BBS Login: PGP
-
- WHERE CAN I FTP PGP CLOSE TO ME?
-
- DE
-
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/virus/crypt/pgp/
- ftp://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/aminet/util/crypt
- ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet/util/crypt
-
- ES
-
- ftp://goya.dit.upm.es
-
- IT
-
- ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt/PGP
-
- FI
-
- ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/crypt
-
- NL
-
- ftp://ftp.nl.net/pub/crypto/pgp
- ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/net-security/encryption/pgp
-
- NZ
-
- ftp://ftphost.vuw.ac.nz
-
- SE
-
- ftp://leif.thep.lu.se
-
- TW
-
- ftp://nctuccca.edu.tw/PC/wuarchive/pgp/
-
- UK
-
- ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/amiga/pgp
- ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
- ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/aminet/amiga-boing
- ftp://unix.hensa.ac.uk/pub/uunet/pub/security/virus/crypt/pgp
-
- ZA
-
- ftp://ftp.ee.und.ac.za/pub/crypto/pgp
-
- HOW CAN I GET PGP BY EMAIL?
-
- If you have access to email, but not to ftp, send a message saying
- "help" to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com or mailserv@nic.funet.fi
-
- WHERE CAN I GET MORE PGP INFORMATION?
-
- http://www.csn.net/~mpj
- http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/warlord/pgp-faq.html
- http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/Issues/Crypto/ITAR_export/cryptusa_paper.ps.gz
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-pgp-pgpformat-00.txt
- ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pem-mime-08.txt
- http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/mitp/recent-books/comp/pgp-source.html
- http://web.cnam.fr/Network/Crypto/(c'est en francais)
- http://web.cnam.fr/Network/Crypto/survey.html(en anglais)
- http://www2.hawaii.edu/~phinely/MacPGP-and-AppleScript-FAQ.html
- http://www.pgp.net/pgp
- http://www.sydney.sterling.com:8080/~ggr/pgpmoose.html
-
- WHAT ARE SOME GOOD PGP BOOKS?
-
- Protect Your Privacy: A Guide for PGP Users
- by William Stallings
- Prentice Hall PTR
- ISBN 0-13-185596-4
- US $19.95
-
- PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
- by Simson Garfinkel
- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
- ISBN 1-56592-098-8
- US $24.95
-
- E-Mail Security: How to Keep Your Electronic Mail Private
- "Covers PGP/PEM"
- by Bruce Schneier
- Wiley Publishing
-
- The Computer Privacy Handbook: A Practical Guide to E-Mail Encryption, Data
- Protection, and PGP PRivacy Software
- by André Bacard
- Peachpit Press
- ISBN 1-56609-171-3
- US $24.95
- 800-283-9444 or 510-548-4393
-
- THE OFFICIAL PGP USER'S GUIDE
- by Philip R. Zimmerman
- MIT Press
- April 1995 - 216 pp. - paper - US $14.95 - ISBN 0-262-74017-6 ZIMPP
- Standard PGP documentation neatly typeset and bound.
-
- PGP SOURCE CODE AND INTERNALS
- by Philip R. Zimmerman
- April 1995 - 804 pp. -
- US $55.00 - 0-262-24039-4 ZIMPH
-
- How to Use PGP, 61 pages, (Pub #121) from the Superior Broadcasting Company,
- Box 1533-N, Oil City, PA 16301, phone: (814) 678-8801 (about US $10-$13).
-
-
- IS PGP LEGAL?
-
- Pretty Good Privacy is legal if you follow these rules:
-
- Don't export PGP from the USA except to Canada, or from Canada except to the
- USA, without a license.
-
- If you are in the USA, use either Viacrypt PGP (licensed for commercial use)
- or MIT PGP using RSAREF (limited to personal, noncommercial use). Outside of
- the USA, where RSA is not patented, you may prefer to use a version of PGP
- (2.6.3i) that doesn't use RSAREF to avoid the restrictions of that license.
-
- If you are in a country where the IDEA cipher patent holds in
- software (including the USA, Canada, and some countries in Europe), make
- sure you are licensed to use the IDEA cipher commercially before using
- PGP commercially. (No separate license is required to use the freeware
- PGP for personal, noncommercial use). For direct IDEA licensing, contact
- Ascom Systec:
-
- Erhard Widmer, Ascom Systec AG, Dep't. CMVV Phone +41 64 56 59 83
- Peter Hartmann, Ascom Systec AG, Dep't. CMN Phone +41 64 56 59 45
- Fax: +41 64 56 59 90
- e-mail: IDEA@ascom.ch
- Mail address: Gewerbepark, CH-5506 Maegenwil (Switzerland)
-
-
- Viacrypt has an exclusive marketing agreement for commercial
- distribution of Philip Zimmermann's copyrighted code. (Selling
- shareware/freeware disks or connect time is OK). This restriction does
- not apply to PGP 3.0, since it is a complete rewrite by Colin Plumb.
-
- If you modify PGP (other than porting it to another platform, fixing a bug,
- or adapting it to another compiler), don't call it PGP (TM) or Pretty Good
- Privacy (TM) without Philip Zimmermann's permission.
-
- WHAT IS PHILIP ZIMMERMANN'S LEGAL STATUS?
-
- Philip Zimmermann was under investigation for alleged violation of export
- regulations, with a grand jury hearing evidence for about 28 months, ending
- 11 January 1996. The Federal Government chose not to comment on why it
- decided to not prosecute, nor is it likely to. The Commerce Secretary stated
- that he would seek relaxed export controls for cryptographic products, since
- studies show that U. S. industry is being harmed by current regulations.
- Philip endured some serious threats to his livelihood and freedom, as well as
- some very real legal expenses, for the sake of your right to electronic
- privacy. The battle is won, but the war is not over. The regulations that
- caused him so much grief and which continue to dampen cryptographic
- development, harm U. S. industry, and do violence to the U. S. National
- Security by eroding the First Ammendment of the U. S. Constitution and
- encouraging migration of cryptographic industry outside of the U. S. A. are
- still on the books. If you are a U. S. Citizen, please write to your U. S.
- Senators, Congressional Representative, President, and Vice President
- pleading for a more sane and fair cryptographic policy.
-
- WHERE CAN I GET WINDOWS & DOS SHELLS FOR PGP?
-
- http://www.dayton.net/~cwgeib
- ftp://oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/security/apgp22b.zip
- http://alpha.netaccess.on.ca/~spowell/crypto/pwf31.zip
- ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/dc/dcosenza/pgpw40.zip
- ftp://ftp.firstnet.net/pub/windows/winpgp/pgpw40.zip
- http://www.eskimo.com/~joelm(Private Idaho)
- ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/~joelm
- http://www.xs4all.nl/~paulwag/security.htm
- http://www.LCS.com/winpgp.html
- http://netaccess.on.ca/~rbarclay/index.html
- http://netaccess.on.ca/~rbarclay/pgp.html
- ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/crypt/gcppgp10.zip
- ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/crypt/pmpgp.zip
- http://iquest.com/~aegisrcs
-
- WHAT OTHER FILE ENCRYPTION (DOS, MAC) TOOLS ARE THERE?
-
- PGP can do conventional encryption only of a file (-c) option, but
- you might want to investigate some of the other alternatives if you do
- this a lot. Alternatives include Quicrypt and Atbash2 for DOS, DLOCK for
- DOS & UNIX, Curve Encrypt (for the Mac), HPACK (many platforms), and a
- few others.
-
- Quicrypt is interesting in that it comes in two flavors: shareware
- exportable and registered secure. Atbash2 is interesting in that it generates
- ciphertext that can be read over the telephone or sent by Morse code. DLOCK
- is a no-frills strong encryption program with complete source code. Curve
- Encrypt has certain user-friendliness advantages. HPACK is an archiver (like
- ZIP or ARC), but with strong encryption. A couple of starting points for your
- search are:
-
- ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/qcrypt11.zip
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/virus/crypt/file/
- ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README
- ftp://ftp.miyako.dorm.duke.edu/pub/GETTING_ACCESS
-
- HOW DO I SECURELY DELETE FILES (DOS)?
-
- If you have the Norton Utilities, Norton WipeInfo is pretty good. I
- use DELETE.EXE in del110.zip, which is really good at deleting existing
- files, but doesn't wipe "unused" space.
-
- ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/public/del120.zip
- ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/security/realdeal.zip
-
- WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THE PASS PHRASE IN MY WINDOWS SWAP FILE?
-
- The nature of Windows is that it can swap any memory to disk at any
- time, meaning that all kinds of interesting things could end up in your
- swap file.
-
- ftp://ftp.firstnet.net/pub/windows/winpgp/wswipe.zip
-
- WHERE DO I GET PGPfone(tm)?
-
- PGPfone is in beta test for Macintosh users. A Windows 95 version is
- being developed.
-
- http://web.mit.edu/network/pgpfone
- ftp://net-dist.mit.edu/pub/PGPfone/README
- ftp.hacktic.nl/pub/pgp/pgpfone
-
-
- WHERE DO I GET NAUTILUS?
-
- Bill Dorsey, Pat Mullarky, and Paul Rubin have come out with a
- program called Nautilus that enables you to engage in secure voice
- conversations between people with multimedia PCs and modems capable of
- at least 7200 bps (but 14.4 kbps is better). See
-
- ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/GETTING_ACCESS
- ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/crypt/other/nautilus-phone-0.9.2-source.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README
- ftp://miyako.dorm.duke.edu/pub/GETTING_ACCESS
- ftp://ftp.dsi.unimi.it/pub/security/crypt/cypherpunks/nautilus
- ftp://ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/misc
-
-
- HOW DO I ENCRYPT MY DISK ON-THE-FLY?
-
- Secure File System (SFS) is a DOS device driver that encrypts an entire
- partition on the fly using SHA in feedback mode.
-
- Secure Drive also encrypts an entire DOS partition, using IDEA, which is
- patented.
-
- Secure Device is a DOS device driver that encrypts a virtual, file-hosted
- volume with IDEA.
-
- Cryptographic File System (CFS) is a Unix device driver that uses DES.
-
- http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut01/sfs.html
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/virus/crypt/disk/
- ftp://ftp.csn.net/mpj/README
- ftp://miyako.dorm.duke.edu/mpj/crypto/disk/
- ftp://ftp.nic.surfnet.nl/surfnet/net-security/encryption/disk/
- ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/ibmpc/secdev/secdev14.arj
-
-
- WHERE IS PGP'S COMPETITION?
-
- RIPEM is the second most popular freeware email encryption package. I like
- PGP better for lots of reasons, but if for some reason you want to check or
- generate a PEM signature, RIPEM is available at ripem.msu.edu. There is also
- an exportable RIPEM/SIG.
-
- ftp://ripem.msu.edu/pub/GETTING_ACCESS
-
-
- HOW DO I PUBLISH MY PGP PUBLIC KEY?
-
- Send mail to one of these addresses with the single word "help" in the
- subject line to find out how to use them. These servers sychronize keys with
- each other. There are other key servers, too.
-
- pgp-public-keys@keys.pgp.net
- pgp-public-keys@keys.de.pgp.net
- pgp-public-keys@keys.no.pgp.net
- pgp-public-keys@keys.uk.pgp.net
- pgp-public-keys@keys.us.pgp.net
-
- WWW interface to the key servers: http://www.pgp.net/pgp/www-key.html
- http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html
-
- For US $20/year or so, you can have your key officially certified and
- published in a "clean" key database that is much less susceptible to
- denial-of-service attacks than the other key servers. Send mail to
- info-pgp@Four11.com for information, or look at http://www.Four11.com/
-
- Of course, you can always send your key directly to the parties you wish to
- correspond with by whatever means you wish.
-
- CAN I COPY AND REDISTRIBUTE THIS FAQ?
-
- Yes. Permission is granted to distribute unmodified copies of this FAQ.
-
- Please e-mail comments to mpj@csn.net
-
- Michael Paul Johnson mailto:mpj@csn.net M i k e ><> ><> ><>
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