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11/24/2001 Archived Entry: "PGP"

I've just installed PGP 7.0.3 on my computer and I can now see its little icon sitting unobtrusively in my system tray. It literally radiates an aura of power and security - if you click on it, a whole number of interesting and incomprehensible options appear in a list. Even better, when I write new emails in Outlook Express, I have at least four new buttons that I can use to digitally sign and encrypt messages in different ways. Unfortunately, I don't really know how all of this works and I have a suspicion that some of the new options were only opened up because I made a new digital signature - but I'm not sure.

Anyway, it's all pretty impressive and apparently I can now use 'military strength' encryption. Just what I need for all those highly confidential emails I send out every day.

All I need now is some freeware firewall software and I'll have the perfect amount of false confidence.