-----Begin Puffer Signed Message----- Puffer Goes Public Key For Immediate Release October 10, 1997 Houston, TX -- Briggs Softworks announces the release of Puffer 3.0, the latest privacy tool that allows PC users to keep their e-mail correspondence and data files private. Who is reading your e-mail? Could be almost anyone, including any number of government agencies. With the expiration of two important cryptography patents in the past month, Puffer now makes state-of-the- art public key encryption software available to the general public at a very low cost and easy to use. New for version 3.0 is the addition of Diffie-Hellman public key cryptography, a type of encryption mechanism that allows you to communicate with any number of other people without having to exchange passwords. Use Puffer to create a public key and then make that key available (you can publish it openly) to your friends and business associates. E-mail and data files encrypted with a public key can only be decrypted and opened by the owner of that key. Puffer retains its file wiping capabilities and its conventional password encryption functions with the 40-bit PC1 and 160-bit Blowfish ciphers. The 128-bit CAST cipher is now available also along with a double encryption option that combines Blowfish and CAST encryption. Due to export restrictions, the Blowfish and CAST options are only available to U.S. and Canadian customers. Also new in Puffer 3.0 are digital signatures which allows you to use your public key to authenticate messages and files, an optional trustee system for corporate data recovery, and a pop-up dialog control that allows many of Puffer's encryption features to be used without leaving your e-mail program. Puffer is marketed as shareware in both 16-bit and 32-bit editions for Windows 3.1 and 95/NT with a registration price of $29. Multi-user site licenses are also available. Visit the Briggs Softworks web site at www.briggsoft.com to download the software, view screen shots, and read more about the program. ================================== Briggs Softworks is an independent software developer, producing Windows utilities in the areas of encryption, graphics viewers, file managers, and calendar printers. Contact: Kent Briggs Briggs Softworks, http://www.briggsoft.com -----Begin PufSig30 -9A617425----- LYCfFBW+E6STlDwSj8y9IPCrnq8wZiVdK-Zcl+NhUndc7Fptv0qbw+++ -----End Puffer Signature-----