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Since it wouldn't do me any good to write code (I've _seen_ my code, it's not pretty), I'm writing in English instead. :-)

I've started work on what I currently call Privacy Without Tears, a guide to PGP and related programs pitched specifically at a novice audience. I would appreciate comments, particularly in the fact-checking line (more on this in a moment). I'd also appreciate anyone who feels like it passing the URL I'll give in a moment on to crypto newbies and seeing if they can follow the instructions and get good results.

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The URL (for the moment):

http://www.aracnet.com/~bruce/privacy/privacy.html

I've already talked to Bruce through private email and told him I would start working on a peice for Mac users. We are on a quest to get people to use PGP, and it does not have anything to do with platform wars. If you have comments, take it to me in private emails. The point of posting this is a) to let Mac readers of this list know that they can refer to their Mac friends to the link for info and b)because I had an idea after talking to Bruce of a great way to get the word spread even further... If everyone not only has a link to these pages in text, but also has their "PGP secured!", or similar little graphic on their pages, linked to these sites as well, it would save a lot of people a lot of redundant explaining and it would help spread the word about PGP like wildfire to the masses. You could also put a "Click for more info on Pretty Good Privacy(tm)" right next to it to get more people to look. _This_ is the way to get widespread attention to and usage of PGP. The pages on PGP would be linked to each other and to pages on freedom of speech and privacy and the word would go far. By placing a link on your page to the PGP page through the graphic, you will be placing a link to dozens, eventually hundreds, of pages detailing PGP as well as sources dedicated to freedom and privacy. Someone on the list made a comment a bit ago about just having regular old text on the site to say "PGP secures", but people respond to the graphics more than anything on web pages. They want to be able to click everything. This would be the key. In the early days of Christianity in Rome, Christians would sometimes communicate to each other by the use of the small simple "fish" illustration that you see on cars everywhere. This will be our symbols power as well, the communication of a message. lunaslide "Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded." - -- Abraham Lincoln On the meridian of time there is no injustice, only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Henry Miller ________________________________________________________________ Digitally sign your mail too! -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCPAzEX3QEAAAEEAOGQjhnqGH29pO1WDaXs5GFOVPhCBWyYEk9XEwRmscjveWzH AhA6DeOA480zWNqQURyqE2yPmR8WzT+OXYqmeiQiycKyFA41Vs/Ruf+gXXxe7uXS L5BK3K8oKbfoH0D5/TAkMT4r6BprXFQz4pFc3gY2SSaSPElpMjKHaKBsRsyRABEB AAG0HUplZmYgQ29ubiA8bHVuYXNsaWRlQGxvb3AuY29tiQCVAwUQMRffHzKHaKBs RsyRAQGNhwP9E9xEZ9/LCKnhgtnrqgD7pDoXG2pCy8FoyfFjoImGkG+jF1wELXmB Z0mf8F8CgYkys0mif1XeGDMelr1gzlZAm6LgQt4kcvztMW/aRLn18QP+iwltVT/L p8D37mitOjvuk46sWgAChIaPPPIeg/EaYQjQkmlpWKsEYIoTRy+E8mU= =4Gku -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----