http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/
This plugin enables private conversations over IM by providing encryption, authentication, deniability, and perfect forward secrecy, according to the site. Here are some other references:
Wikipedia entry
Sourceforge site
Freshmeat announcement
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http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/mrogers/
Some interesting articles.
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http://www.truecrypt.org/
From the site:
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP , Mac OS X, and Linux
Main Features:
* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
* Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive.
* Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
* Provides [...]
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http://www.knoppix.org/
The home site for documentation and download links to Knoppix, a Linux distribution, live CD/DVD, and system recovery suite able to scan Windows systems and retrieve data, if not fully repair the system.
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http://firegpg.tuxfamily.org/
What’s FireGPG?
FireGPG is a Firefox extension under GPL which brings an interface to encrypt, decrypt, sign or verify the signature of text in any web page using GnuPG.
Currently this only works with Gmail. Hopefully the rest follow soon.
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