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Cryptography and ciphers

My decade old writeup on the NIST GAK plans, aka "a trial baloon to ban encryption"
       

 

Interesting web resources:

Pat's GPG key

Long ago, I had a series of PGP keys on all the keyservers. They had any of a number of email names, including pfarrell@cybercash.com and pfarrell@cs.gmu.edu. These keys started from October 1992 and PGP version 2.A typical one was 8E6FF28D Fingerprint = 1593 763F 3C62 1EB4 6F71 ACB1 E15A 66C1

But I have long since changed computer too many times, and used PGP too infrequently to keep the private keyring handy. So lets call those keys lost. Plus, PGP version 2 keys are way old, and those were too small.

PGP has been replaced in the open source world by GPG.

Here is my GPG key. Here it is directly for all (with good eyesight or use Ctrl-+ to increase the size in your browser) to see:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32)
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=
=iq5e
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

and here is a file link to fetch it.

Very cool patent

My favorite patents was awarded to my friend Carl Ellison. United States Patent 6,073,237 June 6, 2000 Tamper resistant method and apparatus Abstract A method for securing data in a tamper resistant fashion on a computer connected to a network.

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