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[FYI] (Fwd) <nettime> uncle george gives crypto a leg up
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- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:57:53 +0200
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: <nettime> uncle george gives crypto a leg up
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Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:05:27 -0100
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"Safe Haven"
Interactive Week (07/16/01) Vol. 8, No. 28, P. 30; Rodger, Will
CryptoRights Foundation is providing human rights workers with
encryption and other securities technology that will protect them
against the hackers, crackers, and online vandals that unbridled
governments employ. Founded by Dave Del Torto in 1999,
CryptoRights is the latest development in the privacy revolution
founded by Whitfield Diffie, who invented public-key
cryptography, and Phil Zimmerman, the inventor of Pretty Good
Privacy (PGP). The two became the founding fathers of modern
cryptography as a result of their concern for the manner in which
the U.S. government guarded the technology. George Soros' Open
Society Institute is a supporter of the work of the San
Francisco-based group, which is looking for more backers. Torto,
a 20-year veteran of Silicon Valley, and his group are primarily
involved in Guatemala and Peru, although there are plans to help
human rights groups in other parts of South America, as well as
activists in Asia and the Middle East. In early February,
CryptoRights visited activists in Guatemala and configured the
group's network to guard against leaks and installed the standard
package of PGP encryption tools for email and disk scrambling.
CryptoRights is in the process of developing a security guide for
human rights workers. "The work that CryptoRights is doing to
encourage the acceptance of strong encryption is really a
tremendous benefit to the activist community," says Minky Worden,
director of electronic media for the advocacy group Human Rights
Watch.
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2787160,00.html
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