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                           Encrypting Messages


     GoldED allows  you to  en/decrypt messages  encoded with  the ROT13
     encryption method. ROT13 is very simple: It just swaps the  letters
     "A-M", "a-m" with "N-Z", "n-z" and vice-versa.

     ROT13 is  mostly used  in Internet  newsgroups where  it is used as
     a "spoiler warning",  so that game  solutions, joke punchlines  and
     other  stuff  is  not  read  by  accident.  In those networks, most
     message readers have ROT13 de/crypting capabilities.

     In FidoNet, not all message readers have ROT13 capability, and  the
     current policy (Policy 4) states:

            2.1.4  Encryption and Review of Mail

     FidoNet  is  an  amateur  system.  Our  technology is such that the
     privacy of messages cannot be guaranteed. As a sysop, you have  the
     right to  review traffic  flowing through  your system,  if for  no
     other reason than to ensure that  the system is not being used  for
     illegal  or  commercial  purposes.  Encryption obviously makes this
     review impossible. Therefore,  encrypted and/or commercial  traffic
     that is routed without the  express permission of all the  links in
     the delivery system constitutes annoying behavior.

     You  will  be  able  to  encrypt  your messages with ROT13, but you
     should not use the crypting facility of GoldED, unless your network
     allows it, and *never* in international echoes.

     See also the chapter about how to setup GoldED with PGP.