From: "Eric Jablow" <erjablow at netacc.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Speel checkers?
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 22:53:19 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
>
> If you don't want people reading your e-mail, you need to encrypt it.
> Both Netscape and Microsoft mail programs have encryption built in.
> To send encrypted or digitally signed e-mail to somebody, you have to
> have the "public" version of their certificate.  Easiest way to do this
> is to have the people that you want to send secure e-mail to, send you a
> digitally signed message.  Then you can send encrypted mail back to
> them.  The buttons to click are under "Tools" (Outlook Express) or
> "Communicator->Tools->Security Info" (Netscape) or "Options->Security"
> (Mozilla).
>
And, if you want some help with the mathematics behind public key
cryptography, I'd be happy to give some lessons.

Also, you can use PGP [Pretty Good Privacy, by Phil Zimmerman], or
GPG [the GNU Privacy Guard].  And, yes, Phil named his program
after Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery, 'sponsor' of the Prairie Home
Companion.  "If you can't get it at Ralph's, you can probably
get along without it."

Eric