Monthly Archives: February 2003

OpenPGP courses now available

I’ve been working on this for the past few months. The OpenPGP courses are now available to everyone in french, english and spanish. I’ll be in Cali, Colombia for a series of conferences and courses so if you’re interested while I’m there, contact me. Continue reading →

Wired News: A Chilly Response to ‘Patriot II’

Éste artículo resume lo que se ha venido diciendo en las mailing list más técnicas, así como aquellas de activistas y defensores de derechos individuales. Me interesó particularmente la Section 404: Use of Encryption to Conceal Criminal Activity Continue reading →

SourceForge Project Web Services: HTML Data Export

I felt pretty bad when I spent several hours looking for a way to have an XML or RSS feed for SourceForge projects… and found it in the SF documentation! Not XML, actually, but very basic HTML that can be used to generate such feeds. Meanwhile, I managed to cache and import . Continue reading →

Mailing lists supporting OpenPGP

After seeing a question on linux-quebec mailing list about this, a quick search turned up several entries. It’s intereseting how encryption tools also provide authentication means that can be used now in production environments. Continue reading →

G-Blog.net / Why use [Open]PGP ?

[Open]PGP provides two functions: encryption and, more importantly, authentication. If you get a message from me with a valid [Open]PGP signature attached, you can be almost entirely certain that the message came from me. The message isn’t encrypted; it just has a very small attachment with it. Anyone can read it; those with [Open]PGP [software] can verify it.
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