Crypto Resources

Here are pointers to interesting documents and things I used in preparation of my talk. Thanks for coming along and putting up with me.

Christian

Clipper

RSA public key

RSA Data Security

Conventional DES crypto

Difficulty of breaking 128 bits

PGP

Cypherpunks Homepage
PGP file server
A Public Key Server for getting public keys of others.

PEM

Privacy Enhanced E-mail - the proposed encoding standard for public key systems the net.

RFC1421 Part I: Message Encryption and Authentication Procedures
RFC1422 Part II: Certificate-Based Key Management
RFC1423 Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers
RFC1424 Part IV: Key Certification and Related Services
RiPEM

WWW Authorization

A worked example of PGP

PGP is installed on Xenon, the Elaines, available for the DECs, and many other platforms.

DECs, Xenon: /u/mogens/pgp/pgp
PCD, RS6000s: /usr/local/bin/pgp --> /u/mogens/pgp/pgp
Elaines: ~finagler/pgp/pgp

PGP is run through a script that selects the correct binary and does some checking on your environment and helps you install PGPs files.

The latest PGP release 2.6 from MIT is authorised by MIT and uses RSA's RSAREF library and is therefore not illegal under the PKP patent. It is not legal to export it though.