===cut=here=== Subject: PGP Mail Integration Project From: simons@peti.GUN.de (Peter Simons) Date: Son Oct 03, 1993 17:12:04 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anybody interested in the integration of PGP in the "normal" e-mail enviroment (seems to be a lot of people here :->), should subscribe to out PGPMIP mailing list and contribute their ideas there. - - ------8<------------------------------------------------------------------- Pretty Good Privacy -- Mail Integration Project =============================================== An Introduction by Peter Simons <simons@peti.GUN.de> Edition 1 Bonn, 14-Sep-93 What is it? - - ----------- Pretty Good(tm) Privacy (PGP), from Phil's Pretty Good Software, is a high security cryptographic software application for MSDOS, Unix, AmigaOS, and other computers. PGP allows people to exchange files or messages with privacy and authentication. Privacy means that only those intended to receive a message can read it. Authentication means that messages that appear to be from a particular person can only have originated from that person. Additionally, no secure channels are needed to exchange keys between users! This is because PGP is based on a powerful new technology called "public key" cryptography. All in all, PGP is a very useful and important program. However it is a little bit...uh... overkill for the average Joe Dow to install this rather complex package, just to encrypt his few e-mail, which are not so private anyway. PGP comes with dozens of options, switches and configuration possibilities, far too many to 'just install and run'. This has prevented many potential users from using PGP for their private mail. Also it is significantly more complicated to encrypt every single outgoing mail and, of course, to decrypt each incoming mail individually. This is what the PGP Mail Integration Project wants to improve. In our opinion man-kind should stay superior and leave the 'dirty-work' to the machines. :-)) Our idea was to integrate PGP, as far as possible, into common UUCP packages so the user needn't be concerned with how PGP itself works. Outgoing or incoming mail should be en-/decrypted automatically and the software should do all the basics of controlling PGP. The mailing list: - - ----------------- What looked like a quite trivial task, that could be managed by a few simple scripts, grew into a full project. Too many cases have to be covered, too many setups have to be recognized, etc, etc... We realized that we'd need quite a number of beta testers and of course a supporting cast of users, contributing ideas and requests, to make PGPMIP fit their needs. If you want to participate in the development of this project or just want to get further information about the project, feel free to contact either myself or any other member of the development team. Additionally, there's a mailing list available which provides the latest information and allows for an on going discussion about the future of the project. Send a message like this TO the list itself to be re-sent to all concerned; To: pgpmip@edex.edu.au Subject: Whatever... Hi pgpmip people, ... A message to the below can be used to sign on and off a list; To: pgpmip-request@edex.edu.au Subject: Whatever... join FirstName LastName pgpmip or leave FirstName LastName pgpmip Note: ADD/SUB/JOIN = join UNSUB/LEAVE = leave Any errors will be, and any problems should be, reported to; To: pgpmip-owner@edex.edu.au Our project concentrates on the Amiga platform, but programmers and users of other operating systems are welcome to contribute, maybe we can expand the project to UNIX, MS-DOS and other platforms. You can find the current version of PGP on aminet in util/crypt/. - - ------8<------------------------------------------------------------------- bye, Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Simons | Usenet: simons@peti.GUN.de | PGP v2.x public key Europaring 20 | CBMNet: simons@peti.adsp.sub.org | available on request 53123 Bonn | Phone: +49 228 746061 | or via GET from almost Germany | CBM: ETG207 | any keyserver. Use it! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.3a iQCVAgUBLK8HLA9HL1s0103BAQHXNgQAldTmlNXiPOrGvr6+L9AAMR7VMyfradD6 85iuQCEgS7hzhJoShZn08hFW1ofX7rcjshwfsT+PlCJvmoei8opBmVtUqJPYRqC3 XIDAy9pWhfAc32anT0GncwkYDK4zIuiFGdzOWmWC3yoGaE1z4NNSUkFcjM3vyMf2 q3ddaA/he/E= =fFNy - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------- End of Forwarded Message