Friday, September 26, 1997

If you're outside the US you can download the source code for PGP from a site in Norway.

Somehow PGP leaked outside the US via the Internet.

Wired News: Are You Sure 40-Bit Encryption Is Enough for You?.

"Mail Starting 9/26/97".

Yes, it's true, there are still people who use System 6.

InfoWorld: Scan down to the middle of this piece for some interesting quotes from Woz.

PC WEEK: Sun's NC running Java OS is under pressure from Microsoft's Hydra.

A three-line script that Brent will run later today or tomorrow.

StarNine: ListStar 1.2.

TechWeb: Canadian Supreme Court Justice speaks on privacy.

I got the PGP package for Eudora from MIT.

Here's the public key for dwiner@well.com.

News.com: Apple narrows CEO search, finalizes NC product plan.

Of the four people mentioned, two of them have a personal page. If you can find others, please send me a pointer.

• David Dorman is CEO of Pacific Bell.

• Joe Costello of Cadence was involved in litigation in late 1995. Here's an Electronic Buyer's News bio of Costello, a BusinessWeek interview and an Upside interview.

• Ed Zander is an exec at Sun.

• Here's an InfoWorld article for June 1996 that quotes Samuel Palmisano of IBM.

Let's come up with a standard format for an executive web resume? This should be easy by now. It's late 1997!

Email programs that support encryption: Outlook Express in Win98, Outlook 97 for Windows 95. The standard email program supplied with Win95 (Windows Messaging) does not have encryption.

AppleTalk tunneling from Digital Forest. It's one-point-oh!

Another puzzle that's not so difficult: During the Cold War, a Russian plane crashes at the border of Poland and Germany. Where will the survivors be buried?

Salon: An ex-Microsoft contractor moves to Iowa.