What about PGP? Or GPG? Quoting Steven T. Hatton <hattons@bellatlantic.net>:

I'm sure it's easy, but I'm not sure where to start looking for the tool. I want to be able to encrypt a message and protect it with a password. Say, for example, I had some one monitoring my mail traffic and spiking certain messages. If I could encypt the message in such away that it could be unencrypted using a passoword this would be an ideal way of prevent the censor form spiking my traffic. After the fact, I don't care who can read the message. I need something that will work easily for all common platforms.

I may try X509 type solutions, but they don't really serve my purpose. It's important that this tool is easy for anybody to obtain and use.

Any ideas?

Steve

PS run kdict, and query on *censor*. #1 & #2

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 March 2001 00:55, Steven T. Hatton wrote:

I'm sure it's easy, but I'm not sure where to start looking for the tool. I want to be able to encrypt a message and protect it with a password. Say, for example, I had some one monitoring my mail traffic and spiking certain messages. If I could encypt the message in such away that it could be unencrypted using a passoword this would be an ideal way of prevent the censor form spiking my traffic. After the fact, I don't care who can read the message. I need something that will work easily for all common platforms.

I'm happily using GPG under KMail (KDE 2.1). It works beautifully, as long as you have Geheimnis around. The gpg RPM is located in the sec diskset. Under Geheimnis, you can generate a public/private key pair, and send the public key to anybody who wants to encrypt mail to you. Get them to do the same, or similar. Under Windows, get pgp from http://www.pgpi.org and install it. It even integrates into Outlook just like in KMail. To send someone an encrypted message, make sure you have the recipient's public key in your key ring (Geheimnis helps you do that, or you can do gpg --import <filename>) and click the lock icon in the message composer before you send it. It will look like a block of garbage, but the recipient can type their passphrase and see the message. GPG also works fine with Mutt, Pine, and a bunch of other mailers (not Netscape, they try to do something proprietary where you have to pay for your keys which are not compatible with PGP). Of course, this is just a poorly thought out overview of the user experience and not a replacement for good documentation. :-)* Go to http://www.pgpi.org/ for that. - -- James Oakley Engineering - SolutionInc Ltd. joakley@solutioninc.com http://www.solutioninc.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD4DBQE6u2uVHYysNB5h3fIRAjaAAJYwqauTTKH6o+FLAFhaYy9NWPEoAKDQ4nfw feBp4lMXJ3mEbZsagSCrsg== =zqO6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----