Abstract: A readable technical user's guide and a look at cryptography and privacy, explaining how to get PGP from publicly available sources and how to install it on various platforms.
Keywords: book review, internet, pgp, pretty good privacy, security, data encryption, access control, computer science.

Title: PGP: Pretty Good Privacy
Author: Simson Garfinkel
Publisher: O'Reilly
Date Published: August 1996
ISBN: 1565920988
LOCN: QA76.9.A25G36 1995
Dewey: 005.8/2 20
Pages: 393
Bibliography: 37
Footnotes: 37
Figures: 41
Photos: 3
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Author:        Garfinkel, Simson.
Title:         PGP:  pretty good privacy /  Simson Garfinkel.
Published:     Sebastopol, CA:  O'Reilly & Associates,  c1995.
Description:   xxxiii, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
LC Call No.:   QA76.9.A25G36 1995
Dewey No.:     005.8/2 20
ISBN:          1565920988
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-379)
                  and index.
Subjects:      PGP (Computer file)
               Computers -- Access control.
               Data encryption (Computer science)
Control No.:   95233196 

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