Mike's Privacy Links

My Links

This is a list of sites that are relevant to PGP or personal security and privacy. Some of them deal with the same subject material as my site, whereas others deal with entirely seperate issues. Pay them a visit, as I've made an effort to only list sites that I find interesting or at least useful.

Note: some of these sites may have requested or paid for these links. They will not receive priority or special locations in the lists.

Government sites

• The Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, Canada
• Central Intelligence Agency of the USA.
• The Canadian Security & Intelligence Service: the Canadian equivalent of the CIA & NSA

Other encryption software

• Private Messenger

Authentication sites:

• Key Witness, Canada
• Thawte
• VeriSign
• Time stamper

Technological

• A good introduction to public key cryptography, esepecially as it relates to browsers.

Essays, discussions

• An excellent comparison of Diffie-Hellman vs. RSA encryption in PGP.
• A speed comparison for IDEA using MMX parallelism.
• Bruce Schneier's Why Crypto is Harder than it looks - read this!
  • Bruce Schneier's Biography
• Dan Greene's Report on telecommunications management, including Powerpoint Slides.
• Potential PGP attacks.
• The Passphrase FAQ
• A masters in Internation Relations student's website about information warfare.
• A Cryptographic Compendium by John J. G. Savard.

Programs using PGP:

• Keyview is a great file viewing / conversion program that uses PGP to secure files.

PGP shells:

• AEGIS Shell A new PGP plug-in that I have not used but is evidently quite good (see comments above).
• Luca Bertoncello's Easy-PGP
• http://www.panix.com/~jgostl/wpgp WPGP - check this Windows shell out!

Mail / News plug-ins:

• Invincible Mail, PGP-compatible plug-in for Pegasus
• Mollusc - plugs into Eudora Pro and
• Forté Free Agent to provide direct PGP support.
• MS Exchange extension - this appears to be the MS Exchange extension that was on Jon Whalen's page.

Drive / partition encryption:

• PGP's own PGP DIsk is part of their Total Network Security package.
• Transparent Cryptographic File System for Linux is a project to enable encrypted partitions.
• Steganographic File System for Linux ... same, but different :).
• VPDisk, a commercial encrypted disk system for Linux.

Lists of links:

• Yahoo's PGP sites listing [or the Canadian Link].
• Slashdot's Crypto related articles -- definately recommended.
• Canadian Cryptography
• Cryptology Pointers by Helger Lipmaa.

Browser related:

• Fortify brings your 40 bit Netscape up to 128 bit.
• NSClean and IEClean: clean up Netscape's and IExplorer's stored info.

Groups / Comittees:

• http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_info/Tools/Crypto/ EFF's encryption information
• http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/cypherpunks/home.html Cypherpunks home page

Steganography:

• Phrack's coverage of the issue.
• Steganographic File System for Linux ... encrypting and hiding partitions on your drive.
• http://colossus.net/wepinsto/wsft_f/wspp_f/wspp.html Personal privacy - stenography, etc.
• http://www.cs.hut.fi/crypto/ International Cryptographic Software Pages for En/Decryption, Cryptanalysis & Steganography.

Other WWW Sites

• The PGP homepage - Get PGP here if you're in North America
• The international PGP homepage - Get it here otherwise
• http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp-form.html PGP 2.6.2 download request form
• PC Webopedia entry for PGP
• C|Net article on PGP
• Privacy enhancing technologies for the Internet
• http://www.chickasaw.com:80/~smcmahon Shawn's page; Rebellious Guerilla's PGP versions available.
• http://www.cs.hut.fi/crypto/ International Cryptographic Software Pages for En/Decryption, Cryptanalysis & Steganography.
• Another cryptography company, Technilabs.
• The PGP Geek Code reference
• Another Introduction to PGP along with other information and links (UK).
• A fellow Canadian's great list of cryptosystems et. al.

Other:

• PGP Digital Timestamping service
• Jon Whalen's Home Page Home of the new MS Exchange extension for PGP integration. It has been brought to my attention that this site no longer has the MS Exchange extension -- please forward me the correct URL if you find it.
• http://www.epix.net/~alf/security/ Alf's PGP page
• MacPGP 2.63 page
• MacPGP.pm (MacPerl module for MacPGP)
• PGP (Documentación en español) Documentation of PGP in spanish.
• Vandal's Privacy site
• Excellent PGP Page
• http://rschp2.anu.edu.au:8080/crypt.html
• http://community.net/community/all/home/solano/sbaldwin
• http://www.cco.caltech.edu/~rknop/amiga_pgp26.html Amiga PGP info
• http://mail.eskimo.com/~joelm/ Joel McNamara's privacy page

If you would like to have your PGP related site added to this list, E-Mail me with the relevant details.