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PGP Is 15 Years Old

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the happy-secure-birthday dept.

An anonymous reader writes "PGP Corporation salutes the 15th anniversary of PGP encryption technology. Developed and released in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann, Pretty Good Privacy 1.0 set the standard for safe, accessible technology to protect and share online information."

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  1. First encrypted post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

         -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
         Version: 2.6.2

         hIwDY32hYGCE8MkBA/wOu7d45aUxF4Q0RKJprD3v5Z9K1YcRJ 2fve87lMlDlx4Oj
         eW4GDdBfLbJE7VUpp13N19GL8e/AqbyyjHH4aS0YoTk10QQ9n nRvjY8nZL3MPXSZ
         g9VGQxFeGqzykzmykU6A26MSMexR4ApeeON6xzZWfo+0yOqAq 6lb46wsvldZ96YA
         AABH78hyX7YX4uT1tNCWEIIBoqqvCeIMpp7UQ2IzBrXg6Gtuk S8NxbukLeamqVW3
         1yt21DYOjuLzcMNe/JNsD9vDVCvOOG3OCi8=
         =zzaA
         -----END PGP MESSAGE-----

    1. Re:First encrypted post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
      hIwDY32hYGCE8MkBA/wOu7d45aUxF4Q0RKJprD3v5Z9K1YcRJ 2fve87lMlDlx4Oj
      eW4GDdBfLbJE7VUpp13N19GL8e/Aqbyyj HH4aS0YoTk10QQ9n nRvjY8nZL3MPXSZ
      g9VGQxFeGqzykzmykU6A26MSMexR4Apee ON6xzZWfo+0yOqAq 6lb46wsvldZ96YA
      AABH78hyX7YX4uT1tNCWEIIBoqqvCeIMp p7UQ2IzBrXg6Gtuk S8NxbukLeamqVW3
      1yt21DYOjuLzcMNe/JNsD9vDVCvOOG3OC i8=
      =zzaA
      Yup, It tastes exactly like chicken.

      Regards,
          The NSA.
    2. Re:First encrypted post by mattwarden · · Score: 3, Funny

      Leave my mother out of this.

  2. Re:GNAA Claims Responsibility in Loli-Chan Raid by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually it should read

    "Are you GAY?
    Are you a NIGGER?
    Are you a GAY NIGGER?
    Are you a member of the GNAA?

    If you answered "Yes" to all of the above questions, you should go find a cliff or a bridge somewhere, then take your entire fucktarded family. Have all of them jump off to their deaths, and after that jump to yours. Then there will be less fucktards in the gene pool."

  3. Re:Thanks, Phil!!! by pegr · · Score: 1, Funny

    If I met him, Id buy him a few drinks (well, as many as he wants. he deserves it).
     
    No lie, a lesbian friend of mine once shared drinks in a hot tub with Phil in Colorado. She said he was a bit of a jerk. Of course, she hates all men so I really can't go by her opinion.
     
    Ya know, I've been waiting a long time to share that factoid with somebody who would know who Phil Zimmerman is. Never thought for a moment it would be a Slashdot post...

  4. Re:Finally Legal! by dubbreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    In Canada it can get jiggy with other encryption technology as long as it isn't >5years senior (and was able to last year as well). It'll have to wait until 16 to consent for any age and 18 if it is interested in encryption with influential power over them. I'm not sure if there are laws about related algorithms. In my neck of the woods we don't code that way.

    --
    "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
  5. Inappropriate PGP usage: my sin. by dotmax · · Score: 3, Funny

    In the early 90s i spent (way too much of) my energy in the marijuana movement. Not wholly surprisingly, i got a little paranoid about marajuana-movement organizations' mailing lists being confiscated in various busts around the country.

    So i relentlessly harangued a national organization to distribute a windows/DOS/Mac PGP release to all of their chapters.

    I felt pretty good about it until i got a call from someone in another state:

            "duuuude. i forgot my passphrase..."

    How did you do that?

              "we were rilly baked ..."

    i've always wondered how much damage i did to the marijuana movement by handing a bunch of stoners a tool that required memorizing a passphrase...

    my bad!