Re: [CH] Recipe Challenge
Michael J. Pedersen (michael.j.pedersen@verizon.net)
Sun, 04 Aug 2002 09:30:52 -0400
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Doug Irvine wrote:
| P G P , of course.....means.....Pretty Good Pears! But CANNED? Oh
well, gimme a day or so, and I will see what I can do, given that I
have, in the
| past, posted dozens of recipes for all sorts of chile related food.
Having a Danish s i l gives me some idea of how a Danes mind works!
His name is
| Carlsen, and his uncles name is Pedersen, so there Michael! Cheers,
Doug in BC
Well, actually (to drive off topic for a moment): PGP means Pretty Good
Privacy. It's a tool I keep going back to, and I'm hoping to stick with
it this time.
So, what is it, and what does it actually do? I could write for a long
long time on that topic. I won't, not right now. Main features are
digitally signing emails, which gives two benefits:
~ 1) Once spammers start using real address of friends as reply-to's,
you'll be able to separate the real from the fake. Spammers won't be
able to fake the signature of somebody you know.
~ 2) If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express, and have this
installed (and configured) to sign outgoing messages by default, you can
avoid the virus attacks that still seem to come up occasionally, and
actually prevent those messages from going out. Since you must have a
password, and the virus won't know it, you can defend yourself a little
bit better.
Second benefit is encryption. Basically, you can put an envelope on your
emails, so that only the intended recipient can read them.
To get PGP itself, visit http://www.pgpi.com/ and follow the download
links. And if you would like to know why pgp has an international
version and a US version, email me. It gets into some stupidity in US
legal system.
Alternately, you can get GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard), an Open Source/Free
Software replacement for PGP (for those of you to whom this matters) at
http://www.gnupg.org/
Now, I've gone off topic for long enough. Please do email me if you need
more info or just want it. I'll glady answer. And I do apologize for
this diversion.
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