It is often stated that PGP is available on numerous Internet FTP sites and many BBS's. The average person knows as much about FTP sites as they hear on the evening news about the information superhighway. They may keep financial books or maybe write books on their computer but they do not have substantial online experiance and they may have a need for secure data encryption or secure way to send data to a publisher, business partner etc. not access these. How could people change this I wonder?
The EFF infobot for Adam Gaffin's Big Dummies Guide is <bdguide@eff.org>. It contains instructions on how to anonymous ftp. An up to date list of sites to fpt PGP from is available in the crypto section.
People talk about handing PGP or other crypto software out but there is a substantial cost to the return of each disk. 1 disk=one user. In my opinion the easy way to do it would be this:
We made PGP 2.3a available at the Armory and even have the docs for those who need them.
They now know where and how to precisely find the stuff and what it does. Jim Nalbandian netcomsv!lassie!jim%lassie@netcom.com
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