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Privacy, secure email and PGP

I would urge everyone to use PGP or other forms of strong encryption for ALL email transactions. By routinely encrypting every single message we can not only ensure our personal privacy, but also help to render inoperable government snooping projects such as Echelon.

If you're looking for downloadable security applications and software, please click on the Downloads link.

Tutorials on PGP/GnuPG

PGP-Pluto - David Kanareck's guide to installing PGP with Pluto (RISC OS email client)
GPG-Windows - My own guide to installing GnuPG for use with Thunderbird on Windows
PGP-Windows - David Kanareck's guide to installing PGP on Windows
PGP information - (Dr Nat Queen's excellent pages)
Beware of 'Snake Oil' - An informative article on modern cryptography by Dr Nat Queen

Various Privacy information documents

How to find hidden cameras - A paper written by Marc Roessler.

Links to Third-party web sites

Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory - A paper presented by Peter Gutmann to the Usenix Security Symposium in 1996.
DNA Profiling - An interesting article on DNA Profiling.
Comprehensive PGP FAQ - A good first stop shop for common questions.
PGP: Key Encryption - A good introduction to PGP encryption and key generation, by David E.Ross
Tom McCune's page for PGP - Very good source of PGP info and FAQ.
Cryptography and Security - Excellent collection of links to further information.

See also my cryptography links page.

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