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.

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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

PGP/GnuPG tutorials

Learning about Cryptography - A basic introduction by Terry Ritter.
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.

DES Encryption

Data Encryption Standard (DES) Standard - National Bureau of Standards.
The DES Algorithm Illustrated - by J.Orlin Grabbe.
DES Encryption Overview

MD5 Encryption

Collisions in the MD5 cryptographic hash function.
MD5 considered harmful today - Creating a rogue CA certificate

Secure deletion/removal of files/data

Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory - A paper presented by Peter Gutmann to the Usenix Security Symposium in 1996.
Camouflage Software. A way of hiding your files. - A neat way of hiding files inside other files.

DNA Analysis & Profiling

DNA Profiling - An interesting article on DNA Profiling.

Snake oil & other 'false' security

Snake Oil Warning Signs: Encryption Software to Avoid

Law & Legal Information

Crypto Law Survey - A good resource site for finding out cryptography laws in different countries.

Password Cracking and Decryption

Russian PaSsWord Crackers - A good site for cracking passwords and application codes.

Hacking

How to eavesdrop on MSN conversations - a neat little hack you can do to computers on your LAN.

Historical Information

Bletchley Park Museum - Interesting mechanical cypher machine info, including Enigma machine history.
Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems - Claude Shannon's original 1949 manuscript.
Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems - Another copy of Claude Shannon's work, plus an article by Horst Feistel, a member of the IBM team that developed the Lucifer and DES ciphers.
A Mathematical Theory of Communication - Claude Shannon's original 1948 manuscript.

Miscellaneous crypto stuff

TCPA/Palladium FAQ - by Ross Anderson.
Plaintext recognition - Alan Sherman's introduction and guide.
The Diceware Passphrase Home Page - A novel way of generating passphrases using dice.

Further links to information

John Savard's Cryptographic Compendium - plus loads of other interesting links
Cryptography and Security - Excellent collection of links to further information.
Crypto link farm Security Products - a huge list of useful links.
Nature-Inspired Cryptography and Security - A good repository of interesting links to different cryptographic ciphers.
Cryptography and Security - Excellent collection of links to further information.


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