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Person To Person Security Downloader
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Version
5.0.0
One of the fundamental principles of the UK Data
Protection Act states that:
Appropriate technical and organisational measures
shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful
processing of personal data and against accidental
loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.
Article 17 of EU Directive 95/46/EC 1995 enforces
similar requirements for the security of personal
data. In today's internet world where organisations
are using email to deliver information, what
technology is available to ensure that we comply with
the law ?
RSA Encryption - the security invention which makes
the internet work commercially
Every time you use a credit card you are depending on
RSA Encryption to protect you. Its interesting that
such a pervasive and critical technology is so little
known.
RSA was developed in the 1970's by three American
mathematicians and is today the basis of all financial
transactions on the internet. This is due to its
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