Short: integrating PGP into e-mail Architecture: m68k-amigaos Pretty Good Privacy -- Mail Integration Project =============================================== written by Peter Simons Pretty Good(tm) Privacy (PGP), from Phil's Pretty Good Software, is a high security cryptographic software application for MSDOS, Unix, AmigaOS, and other computers. PGP allows people to exchange files or messages with privacy and authentication. Privacy means that only those intended to receive a message can read it. Authentication means that messages that appear to be from a particular person can only have originated from that person. Additionally, no secure channels are needed to exchange keys between users! This is because PGP is based on a powerful new technology called "public key" cryptography. All in all, PGP is a very useful and important program. However it is a little bit...uh... overkill for the average Joe Dow to install this rather complex package, just to encrypt his few e-mail, which are not so private anyway. PGP comes with dozens of options, switches and configuration possibilities, far too many to 'just install and run'. This has prevented many potential users from using PGP for their private mail. Also it is significantly more complicated to encrypt every single outgoing mail and, of course, to decrypt each incoming mail individually. This is what the PGP Mail Integration Project wants to improve. In our opinion man-kind should stay superior and leave the 'dirty-work' to the machines. :-)) Our idea was to integrate PGP, as far as possible, into common UUCP packages so the user needn't be concerned with how PGP itself works. Outgoing or incoming mail should be en-/decrypted automatically and the software should do all the basics of controlling PGP.