PGP Links in Canada

Electronic Frontier Canada's
Cryptography Resources

There's been a lot of talk recently about what sorts of cryptographic software can or cannot be exported from the United States. The concern, it seems, is that widespread availability of strong encryption is thought to pose a significant national security risk to the United States.
The question of what restrictions, if any, apply to exports of cryptographic software from Canada is confusing because of jurisdictional uncertainties involving US Export Restrictions and Canada-US Trade Agreements.
Marc Plumb has been looking into this issue for several months and he's written a summary of what he's learned so far. If you have an questions, comments, or additional information, please send e-mail and we'll update the report. (last updated: May 30, 1996).

PGP Links in Canada

This is page is meant to serve as a collection of links to Internet sites in Canada that provide information about cryptography, including software such as PGP (Pretty Good Privacy). PGP is public-key encryption software, used most frequently for sending private e-mail.

There are remarkably few sites in Canada that make PGP available.

Mark Henderson maintains a Crypto Archive that is the most extensive in Canada. He also maintains a list of sites around the world with crypto software.
Ross Barclay has some PGP Resources available.
Stefan Powell has a few Security and Privacy Tools
Yanik Crepeau maintains a mirror site for the International PGP Home Page, en français: La page de référence Internationale de PGP.
Mark Babcock has a Privacy Page.

PGP in the United States

NEWS FLASH Charges in relation to distributing encryption software in violation of U.S. Export Policy against Phil Zimmerman, author of PGP, have been dropped. (11jan96)

RSA has their own FAQ on public-key cryptography .
There is also a general Usenet Cyptography FAQ (from the newsgroup sci.crypt).
Another good archive is Quadralay's Cryptography Archive , which includes the alt.security.pgp FAQ and information about the Phil Zimmerman Defense Fund . (Phil Zimmerman is the author of PGP, by the way.)
A good place to go for a no frills site with easy links for downloading software is EPIC's Practical Tools for Protecting Privacy .
Perhaps the most complete list, or at least the best starting point might be the EFF's Crypto links .
Commercial PGP users can visit PGP Inc.. They sell to customers in Canada and the U.S. Phil Zimmerman works for PGP Inc., which recently acquired Viacrypt Inc.

PGP around the world ...

The International PGP Home Page is located on a server in Norway.
The PGP.net Key Server is located in Germany.
David Vincenzetti maintains a big collection in his Crypto Archive at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italia.
There's a Crypto Archive at Oxford University, United Kingdom.
... and a Crypto Archive at the Universitat Hamburg, Deutschland.

PGP Public Key Servers ...

If you want to send PGP-encrypted email to someone, you'll need to know their PGP Public Key, which you may be able to find by looking on one of the servers listed below.

Brian LaMacchia has a nice web interface to his Public Key Server .
You can also use an email interface. Just send a message with the single word "help" in the subject line to any of the following addresses:

Usenet Newsgroups ...

And then, of course, there are the Usenet newsgroups:

Another good place to look for interesting discussions is the Cypherpunks Archive.

If you need to send encrypted email to EFC , please use this public key:

Please send comments, updates, etc. to [email protected] .

Electronic Frontier Canada's Cryptography Resources