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Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux: A Lesson in Encryption, Part 1 (Linux Journal)

[Posted September 20, 2005 by ris]

This Linux Journal article provides an introductory look at encryption. "The mathematical qualities that PKE relies on have a beautiful symmetry to them, and PKE rocked the worlds of computer science and encryption when it appeared in the 1970s. Government scientists in Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping and phone-tapping center later claimed that they had invented the technique some years earlier, but kept it secret! Indeed, they did uncover some of the theory, but it was clear that the spies of GCHQ had not grasped its practical significance."

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Posted Sep 21, 2005 21:16 UTC (Wed) by mps (guest, #32594) [Link]

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The encryption program crunches the secret message with your public key to produce an encrypted message.
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Does this man know how PKI works?
Shame for Linux Journal editors. :-(

Peter van der Linden's Guide to Linux: A Lesson in Encryption, Part 1 (Linux Journal)

Posted Sep 22, 2005 9:02 UTC (Thu) by mps (guest, #32594) [Link]

I shouldn't write comments after hard working day.

My apologies to author and LJ editors.