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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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
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=qorf
-----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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