I'd be interested to know if there are freepers out there who use GPG/PGP.
I do. And I also have a copy of the PGP book, purchased when there was all the discussion in government circles about embargoing encryption. I still remember all the legal eagles saying that publishing the algorithms in book form trumps the embargo of source.
Remember the T-shirts that had DECSS printed on them?
Says the guy that keyed Small C from Dr. Dobbs those many years go.
People have largely forgotten the crap that Phil Zimmerman went through regarding PGP. The associated documentation was actually a pretty good primer on encryption.
I had a copy of Schneier’s Applied Cryptography. It went walking from my office at work one day, sadly. It’s still relevant today. Bruce has been writing a lot in recent years of some of the pitfalls associated with the modern spy state, both governmental, and non.
Btw... My PGP key is on my FR homepage