Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of PublicWhyUseOpenPGP

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04/04/13 20:58:41 (11 years ago)

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+= Why use PGP to contact Tachanka!? =
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+Pretty Good Privacy provides ''encryption'' and ''authentication''. These are both useful when communicating with Tachanka! about our services.
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+'''Encryption''' makes sure that only Tachanka! can read your message, and that only you can read Tachanka!'s answer. This way, you can ask Tachanka! anything without fear of other people finding out. Also, if we get a lot of encrypted mail, it is less suspicious if somebody sends us encrypted mails. Therefore, using encrypted mail is also a form of solidarity.
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+'''Authentication''' ensures that emails from your email address actually come from you, rather than from a third party masquerading as you. This is because email protocols were designed in the early days of the Internet, and without an extra layer of authentication, it is fairly easy to send emails with an arbitrary 'From:' address.
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+== Our preferences ==
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+We strongly desire to communicate with people who use our services using encrypted and signed (authenticated) emails.
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+We require ''encryption'' to make sure that only you can read the information about our infrastructure and any access details we are sending you.
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+We require ''authentication'' to make sure that when you contact Tachanka! with a request - for example asking to turn off your services because you don't need them any more - it is really you and not somebody else pretending to be you.
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+We hope these are good enough reasons, but you are welcome to try to persuade us about an alternative. In the meantime, we see these measures as essential, since we want to provide ''your'' services only to ''you'', and not to any malicious third parties. 
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+== 'How-to's ==
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+Reasons to use PGP (the author is the original author of PGP):
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+ - http://www.pgpi.org/doc/whypgp/en/
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+User friendly PGP how-to:
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+ - http://en.flossmanuals.net/basic-internet-security/ch027_mail-encryption-gpg/
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+Shell user friendly PGP how-to:
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+ - http://moser.cm.nctu.edu.tw/gpg.html