PGP and GnuPG have been utilizing webs of trust to establish authenticity without a centralized certificate authority for a while. Now, a new tool seeks to extend the concept to include scientific publications. The idea is that researchers can review and sign each others' works with varying levels of endorsement, and display the signed reviews with their vitas. This creates a decentralized social network linking researchers, papers, and reviews that, in theory, represents the scientific community. It meshes seamlessly with traditional publication venues. One can publish a paper with an established journal, and still try to get more out of the paper by asking colleagues to review the work. The hope is that this will eventually provide an alternative method for researchers to establish credibility.
This site host diki - the distributed knowledge infrastructure. It is a friend-to-friend (p2p-like) based infrastructure that aims at providing a social semantic web without central servers. Thus it provides the privacy that most application still lack of.
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.
Googlemail unterstützt keine PGP-Verschlüsselung der Emails, aber mit Hilfe von ein paar kleinen Handgriffen ist auch dieser Wunsch erfüllt. FireGPG ist eine Erweiterung für den Firefox, die diesen Job recht komfortabel übernimmt.
Festplatten und andere Laufwerke vor Hackern (und Bundestrojanern) sichern. Bruce Schneier: "Computer security is hard.... Cryptography is an exception. As long as you don't write your own algorithm, secure encryption is easy. "