Why do you need PGP? Copyright 1996 by Chen Tai-wei [Chen Tai-wei]------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -perhaps you would think that using these confidential programs or systems would make people feel a bit paranoid (paranoid schizophrenia)? To make a reality of
This article mainly introduces some principles and background knowledge about PGP implementation. Other documents on the installation and use of PGP refer to other documentation provided with this article. PGP pretty-Privacy is a mail encryption software based on RSA public key encryption system. You can use it to keep your emails secret to prevent unauthorized reading, and it can also digitally sign your emails so that the recipient can be sure you sent them. It allows you to safely communicate with people you've never seen before, and you don't need any confidential channels to pass the secret.
PGP is a mail encryption software based on RSA public key encryption system. You can use it to keep your emails secret to prevent unauthorized reading, and it can also digitally sign your emails so that the recipient can be sure you sent them. It allows you to safely communicate with people you've never met before, and you don't need any confidential channels to pass the keys. It uses: Prudent Key management, a RSA and traditional encryption of the hybrid algorithm for digital signature of the message digest algorithms, encryption, and so on, there is a good ergonomics design. It's powerful and fast. And...
E-Mail has become the most convenient way of communication in the Internet age, because of the freedom of the Internet, so the security of the mail is becoming more and more prominent. Today, with the popularity of the Internet, e-mail is becoming more and more popular, open a book or magazine newspaper, have an e-mail address, even the ads are marked with e-mail address; this has become a fashion, the most convenient way to communicate in the Internet era, save money, fast. It is because of the freedom of the Internet, so the security of the message is increasingly prominent. e-mail Message delivery, general ...
The use of security programs does not guarantee that your communication is secure. Even if you install one of the safest locks on the front door, thieves can still crawl in through the open window. Also, even with PGP, your computer may still be vulnerable. There are many famous attacks on PGP, and the following sections describe these attacks. However, these are by no means a complete list. Future attacks are likely to compromise all public-key cryptography technologies. This checklist just gives you an idea of what you need to do to protect your communications. 1. The most direct attack on PGP by brute force attacks is the key used by brute force attacks. Because...
PGP 5.5.3i for Windows General Operations PGP for Windows typically operates in two ways, with a pair of file content that is achieved with the Copy/paste feature of the ClipBook, and the right mouse button activates the PGP function. Details are as follows: (a) ClipBook (copy/Post) when PGP is installed, PGP is automatically activated. and a small symbol such as "498" this.width=498 on the right side of the status column below Windows appears;
We know that PGP (pretty) is the most popular kind of encryption software at present, it is a mail encryption software based on RSA public key encryption system. We can use it to keep the message confidential to prevent unauthorized reading, and it can also digitally sign the user's message so that the recipient can be sure of the sender's identity. It allows users to communicate securely with people they have never seen before, without requiring any secrecy to pass the key, because it uses an asymmetric "public key" and "private key" encryption system. But PGP is not a completely asymmetric addition ...
The simplest way to compromise is to have your password written somewhere, and there is no guarantee that no one else can see it except you. If someone gets your password and your private key file, the entire encryption system will be silent. Another old topic is the password not too simple, note that PGP is "password" passphase, rather than "password" password that is, you can include multiple words and spaces in the password. A wily attacker may use a famous book to find your password. So in order to get a good and difficult to guess password, you can sporogenous some sentences or find ...
1 Introduction e-mail plays an important role in people's work. According to statistics, the average Chinese per user receives 4.4 mails a week, sends 3.6 emails. But the primary protocol for e-mail, such as SMTP, is delivered in plaintext. This information may be obtained by a third party when it passes through an untrusted internet. In a modern society that attaches importance to information security, it clearly meets the requirements. How can this information be kept confidential without tampering or forgery? The PGP (Pretty-Privacy) described in this article is a kind of software, which is mainly used for electric ...
In modern society, e-mail and file transfer on the network has become a part of life, the security of the message is increasingly prominent. It is well known that the data transmitted over the Internet is usually unencrypted, and if you do not protect your important information, the third party will easily gain your privacy. Another problem is information authentication, that is, how to convince the recipient that the message has not been tampered with by a third person, which requires digital signature technology. PGP is such a product. Pgp--pretty is a Privacy based RSA public key encryption ...
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