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Intro to Encryption
An anonymous reader submitted a Techworld story which is a sort of encryption primer. The difference between codes & cyphers, and what all those acronyms like RSA and DES actually mean. This is good primer material for newbs, and a good refresher for fogeys.
svefg cbfg!
That's easy. Code is what I stare at all day, while Cypher is the jerk who betrayed Neo in The Matrix. Duh.
You have two hands and one brain, so always code twice as much as you think!
When I want to email with a new friend using PGP encryption, I send him my key one character at a time via snail mail using newspaper clippings. The only time this becomes a problem is when the post office laps itself and delivers more than one letter a day, or gets an earlier letter there later than a later letter, but it's the only way to be sure the key never falls into enemy hands. Of course, I don't get to email many people these days...
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"When I find myself in times of trouble, PKZ he comes to me.
Speaking words of wisdom, 'PGP, PGP.'"
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"...and my porn passwords are Romeo and Juliet!"
Well my porn passwords are Juliet and Juliet. It's a lesser known work, to be sure, but it's certainly steamier.