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“…Perhaps you think your email is legitimate enough that encryption is unwarranted. If you really are a law-abiding citizen with nothing to hide, then why don’t you always send your paper mail on postcards? Why not submit to drug testing on demand? Why require a warrant for police searches of your house? Are you trying to hide something? If you hide your mail inside envelopes, does that mean you must be a subversive or a drug dealer, or maybe a paranoid nut?…”

-Philip Zimmerman, Creater of PGP

Of course it doesn’t, it simply means you value your privacy.

PGP, or more specifically OpenPGP is a great, and more importantly FREE method of securing your data and your e-mails. You don’t want “The Man” reading your e-mails, and neither do I.

There are many PGP and OpenPGP programs out there, but the one that is the most versatile that I have seen is called GnuPG. It comes in some form for every operating system. It comes standard with Ubuntu Linux, and there are versions for Windows and MAC.

If you are a fan of Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird like I am, then you will be happy to know that there are GnuPG plugins for both of them. Enigmail for Thunderbird, and FireGPG for Firefox. Of course you have to have GnuPG installed for the plugins to work.

If you have any doubts on the strength of the encryption, it uses PKI and the encryption keys can go up to 4096 bits, which is so strong that if you take all of the computing power on the planet it would still take something ridiculous like 10 billion years to crack (Give or take). I also found a quaint little article here about how the FBI has problems cracking PGP.

To find out where you can download the right version of Gnu Privacy Guard for your system, click here:(Gnu Privacy Guard)

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Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) is one of the prestigious exams held all over the world. This is the entry level certification which is an indication of a professional to handle a network – install, configure, operate and troubleshoot both Wide Area and Local Area network problems. With a CCNP certification you are eligible to get a job of networks for an enterprise.

The CCNP training courses are provided to those candidates who are aspiring to become Cisco certified professionals. They have to clear Cisco exams of entry level for CCNP certification. The CCNP training courses focus on topics which are required for an entry level professional. The topics include converged network, security, quality of service (QoS), broadband technologies, installation of a network, virtual private networks.

After you have completed your CCNP training courses you should be able to do the following tasks easily -
You should be able to implement suitable technologies to construct a scalable routed network for an enterprise.

Should be able to build campus networks by means of multilayer switching technologies
Should know how to improve traffic flow, increase reliability, redundancy, and overall performance for LANs, routed and switched WANs, as well as remote access networks
Without any trouble organize QoS, VPN, and converged networks for the organization
Easily troubleshoot those problems in an environment that uses Cisco routers and switches for multi-protocol client hosts and services

The CCNP training courses have been designed to train you in all these operations flawless for a smooth, threat free network for an organization. The topics recommended for Cisco course offering CCNA certification include – Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI), Optimising Converged Cisco Networks (ONT), Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks (ISCW) and Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN).

The CCNP training courses by an institute can be your key to success and passing the exams. The certification is a great benefit to network technicians and network engineers who wish to propel their career filled with rocket fuel. The 120 hours long (usually this is the duration, some institutes or boot camps may have more hours of training) CCNP training program by any training centre would include complete training for all the four papers you have to pass – 642-901 BSCI, 642-812 BCMSN, 642-825 ISCW and 642-845 ONT.

Once you pass all these exams you are rewarded the Cisco certification. The CCNP certification is valid only for three years. After that you have to go for Cisco recertification by passing the 642 code exam. To learn more on CCNP training courses and recommended study and tips visit sites like www.coursefox.co.uk.

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