Please email:
norb (@) y23.com thanks! Please use ENCRYPTED email. PGP or better GPG (GnuPG)
Pictures? There are two Please make them web-ready and ready-to-email in one go!!!
It is better for you (why?) Software? Free! Use http://www.gnupg.org/ .. here is my key:
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- mQCNAzVfcw0AAAEEALB8aj+DR7KvbGnhdJvJ5uIZpikTHEPu+W5hmjW7ujeb1CSC bMg2aFE4MpoCnTyyr6jAA5KJ5CIcDQ2UhlSc+YfiOTNBgcTOrTFZqduk4XKKaR4c 3tJDhCwcB9AC8E+AOgi6zSJJ4gTAAZMRsHJRsoFnxMOyVvunwApkiLngpBFtAAUR tBhub3JiIDxub3JiQGtjYmJzLmdlbi5uej6JAJUDBRA1X3MOCmSIueCkEW0BAbvB BACta3aR1qTcvKpd2ABLB15r0ElWXmnq3acU5j8EX2oI3Kd4AUj/6TP3/aETf9CQ pBFTO9nLOS8QYqgt1iDsAvcUE4fKOW73v/Vv3SsK7REiL9PISW5o7GzYXVKjMM92 RSbDAuzlMoU/xhjG2X2qE6Cgt1FYn6PvuLAnO3XGhTwsXA== =wQoo -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
^^ COPY AND PASTE IT into your PGP ^^ ... or search on a key-server http://pgp.mit.edu/ for n o r b @ k c b b s . gen . n z By the way, you also should lock your Hard-Drives with Scramdisk Encryption-solutions for email are horrible to use, but there is one that is near perfect. I found that I am very happy with GPGrelay http://sites.inka.de/tesla/gpgrelay.html and I am trying to get the Author to make it entirely perfect. The greatest advantage is that is decrypts on the fly, and that your email-programme can stay as dumb as it ever was. You can still search through all your emails for 'that elusive sentence' and you never loose the emails when loosing your key... because in your email-programme the messages are stored plain-text (not-encrypted). When receiving SIGNED emails GPG automatically retrieves the other person's public key, so you can answer encrypted rightaway. (GPGrelay needs a manual right-click RELOAD KEYS in the key-window). On my machine GPGrelay also fixed the Netscape-email-Win95-Winsock-BSOD problem. The following is walk-through for a great system.
(I also use http://www.winpt.org for manual-encryption-tweaking)
I recommend you install it NOW, and make your experiences with it... so that you are a HAPPY ENCRYPTION USER a.s.a.p.
NON destructive, NO installation, EASY to UndoInstallation of the programmes
extract the zip-file http://musicmusic.tripod.com/gpgy23.zip containing GPG.EXE GPGrelay.exe OPTIONS DblCliMe.REG and IDEA.DLL toc:\mysecret
(exactly as shown... or it cocks it up!) Explore it, and double-click the DblCliMe.REG file, press OK. (This will register the encryption-programmes to operate correctly)Your Keys
now choose: A) you already have PGP and keyrings: find and COPY files secring.skr and pubring.pkr into the folder: c:\mysecret and rename them to secring.gpg and pubring.gpg finished. GOTO NEXT CHAPTER B) you are a new-user of encryption START -- PROGRAMS -- MSDOS-Prompt: c: ENTER cd \mysecret ENTER Now the DOS-Prompt looks like this: C:\MYSECRET\> type gpg --gen-key ENTER and follow instructions: Instructions: ENTER .. ENTER .. ENTER .. y .. ENTER YourFirstName YourLastName ENTER YourEmail@ddress.com ENTER ENTER o (O as in Oscar) ENTER --- now WAIT and move the mouse ---- If you fail ... delete secring.gpg and pubring.gpg and start over from B) HEY, THAT WASN'T SO DIFFICULT, EH? cool...
Giving others your public-key.
For others to be able to send you encrypted messages, you must make your public key available. When you are online, gpg --send-keys ENTER will do the trick. If you see gpg: success sending ... all is well. You key is now on the server... Now tell everyone: search for my key at pgpkeys.mit.edu If your friends use the same setup as described here in this file you are reading now.... then the key-retrieval, works automatically .. they do not need to hunt down your key, because upon receiving a SIGNED EMAIL... GPG will automatically retrieve the key from the server. As a matter of courtesy, your can email people your public key and/or put it on your web-page. To do that, we generate a standard socalled ASCII-armored version for exporting, that you can open in Notepad and copy and paste it into emails to people that need it with: gpg --export -a > My-Public-Key.txt ENTER (also, cut and paste it into the most common key-server key-serverhttp://pgp.mit.edu/. yippiee ... lets continue the installation ..... start you favourite email-programme write down the old SMTP and POP servers and change them both to 127.0.0.1 (firewall? allow LOCAL LOOP!) Example for Netscape 4.x: Edit -- Preferences -- MailServers -- (Incoming)-EDIT in the Server-Name enter the following: 127.0.0.1 OK in the Outgoing mail (SMTP) server enter: 127.0.0.1 OK OK Make a ShortCut to GPGrelay.exe in the Windows StartUp Folder (right-click GPGrelay.exe -- Create Shortcut -- drag and drop it into C:\WINDOWS\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp ) Run it. Double click the icon in the Windows Tray and edit a few options: SERVERS check the checkboxes Threads x SMTP and x POP Add -- Name: MySMTP LocalPort: 25 RemoteServer: smtp.OLDSERVER.COM Remote Port: 25 Type: SMTP (is already checked) Add -- Name: MyPOP LocalPort: 110 RemoteServer: pop3.OLDSERVER.com Remote Port: 110 Type: POP press Restart Threads Global Control: x Always Trust next tab: KEY RULES: click on Default Profile (Now we will be adding Recipient-profiles! )
ADD NEW PROFILE... Name: Always Encrypt Inline (x) Encrypt [x] Inline PGP Block
ADD NEW PROFILE... Name: Always Encrypt use PGP-attachment (x) Encrypt [ ] Inline PGP Block (leave unchecked!)
ADD NEW PROFILE... Name: Prefix Control, PGP INLINE (x) PreFix-Control [x] Inline PGP Block check uncheck [x] Sign if Subject begins with __Sign:__ [ ] Remove PreFix check uncheck [x] Encrypt if Subject begins w __Encr:__ [ ] Remove PreFix check type ES: uncheck [x] Encrypt > Sign if Subject begins with __ES:__ [ ] Remove PreFix
ADD NEW PROFILE... Name: Prefix Control, PGP MIIME Attachment same shitty procedure as above, except this time leave [ ] Inline PGP Block unchecked
PHEW... aaaargh ... what stupid work. ... but has to be done (thanks Andreas!) Now as you put other people's public keys into this window, you need to drag and drop all the keys into the new fitting profile... Next tab: ALIASES right-click on the key and add alternative email-addresses that the user (you) have been using in the past or will in future. (If the Recipient-email of your email-partner does NOT appear somewhere here, they will not receive encrypted emails... they'll go unencrypted) Now the last tab: GLOBAL: check [x] always trust keys. almost F I N I S H E D Now lets save our work, before GPGrelay crashes and we have to do it all again hold the ALT-ke on your keyboard.... KEEP HOLDING IT!! now press the SPACEBAR .. release SPACE BAR .. release ALTkey and click on Save Settings NowFINISHED YOU DID IT!
Now compose a test-message... use the following subject: Sign: T e s t Now you should be asked for your passphrase... (this is a good sign :-) Now get eeryone to send you their PGP (GPG) public keys... and then you can import them and then you can send them encrypted email messages, with teh Subject: Encr: This is a message in chiffre, hehe.
OLD INFO on SMIME
Too complicated and inflexible! I am not using it anymore. SMIME is free but you need to renew your key at the cert-authority mercy. You can get a free "certificate" at www.trustcenter.de .... if you use Freemail.WEB.DE you already have a certificate!!! .... install their WEB.DE certificates http://trust.web.de/root.sql Install my certificate, and send me an encrypted and signed email now! https://www.trustcenter.de:443/cgi-bin/Search.cgi Search for norb norb
PGP??? I also don't use it anymore (You can download it at http://www.pgpi.com/)
Wishlist
I wish someone would make an email-service that we can use with SSL-POP and the GPG resides on the mail-server, so that we can check our email with webmail. Password-entering is done with an ever-changing picture-keyboard (image-map) so that the keystroke recorder-programme at the lousy internet-cafe doesn't intercept it.
If you live in the United States of Angst, you are probably already monitored. You can encrypt your VOICE communication with Speak Freely, or Nautilus. If you are a computer-beginner, you should pay a kid from the neighborhood to install all the software you want on HIS computer, and demonstrate it to you, upon which you may him half the money, and then install it on your computer and give him the other half. Do not forget to check for Trojan horses residing in your computer. (Also try here. A really good check YOU (yes you!) can perform is here... look for ShieldsUp lots more links are here.
How to make a document without WinWord
Pleeeeeaaaassee avoid Microsoft where you can. Keep this on file (Copy + Paste it in an email to someone!) ================================================================================== Please pass this on.... to anyone you know personally and who wishes to publish anything on the web. ------------- once ------------------------ 1) Find and Download AOLpress 2.0 aolp20_32.exe 3,600,609 bytes http://google.com?q=aolp20_32 2) Double-click and unpack to default directory ---------------------------------------------- ---------------- every update time -------------------------- When happy, http://www.winzip.com the pages and email the zip-file to me. HINTs: use Table >> Alter ... to edit Tables. CTRL-ENTER does a hard line-break
Internet Connection Sharing ICS
Host: win98se win setup> internet tools TCP/IP>Network-card 192.168.0.1 Client: Manual (no assigned IP number ... DHCP goes up 1,2,3,4) to avoid clash, work down from 192.168.0.254 Disable WINS, Gateway: 192.168.0.1 Enable DNS Host: enter unique name (same as NetBios - computer -name) DNS Search order 192.168.0.1 reboot
Walk-through: Load your picture into XnView, then go:
Done! It should
now be between 10 and 120kB ..
(avoid Microsoft where you can! There are always ways to spy on you if you are using Bill-Gates diabolical softwares. Use Linux/StarOffice instead!)
Short of that, make sure you do not have a Trojan horse in your computer. Check for yourself right now: http://grc.com and http://google.com/search?q=trojan+online+check
Use TweakUi (Paranoia) to clear all www-history automatically. http://google.com/search?q=download+tweakui
Start -- Settings -- Control Panel -- Internet Options -- Clear Temporary Internet Files
Assume that your internet-connection is monitored at the company gateway.
The solution is to encrypt all traffic between your machine and a point
outside of your company. This point is called a shell account and you will have to hire it for money.
http://google.com/search?hl=en&q=cheapest+shell+accounts+ssh
The process is called SSH tunneling
http://google.com/search?q=ssh+tunnelling
and for windows-machines PUTTY is the free SSH programme of choice. http://google.com/search?q=download+putty
Viruses, Worms, Trojans
FREE, cool, latest virus and worm detector and remover Fprot (run f-prot.exe)
ftp://ftp.europe.F-Secure.com/anti-virus/free/
Latest definitions:
ftp://ftp.europe.F-Secure.com/anti-virus/updates/f-prot/dos/
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