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Who is Kevin Mitnick:Kevin David Mitnick is an American computer hacker and computer security consultant. It was purchased in Los Angeles in the late 1970s, at a time when the personal computer industry was exploding. He came from a lower middle class family with his parents divorced at an early age and was mostly a loner and clueless. He learned and discovered the power to control telephone networks. What he did: During his time the underground culture of phone phreaks had already flourished over the years. He was able to commandeer a telephone company's central office digital switch by making a remote connection using simply a personal computer and a modem. In addition to the free calls he mastered, he could also eavesdrop on the rich and powerful or even his own enemies. He later joined an informal gang of phone phreaks in Hollywood where they pulled pranks. One of the gang destroyed the files of a San Francisco-based computer company. This crime remained unsolved for over a year. In the year 1981, a couple of Kevin and Kevin's friends physically entered Pacific Bell's COSMOS telephone center in downtown Los Angeles. The group took a list of computer port and password combinations and a set of operating manuals, then implanted their phone numbers and aliases into one of the desks during a rolodex session. To implant this process they used the fake name "John Draper" who was a computer programmer by profession and was well known for misrouting numbers ringing elsewhere from the intended destination. They were soon arrested because the telephone company managers discovered the fake numbers that he reported to the local police and they were caught. Kevin since he was 17... middle of the paper ......generated while searching for the message is called a private key. The other key which can be used for any type of message as anything in general is called public key. The private key is used to encrypt messages personally and will not be seen or shared by any other user. While the public key is again used for the same reason as encryption, but it is hidden from others except ourselves. Data encryption via public key can also be decrypted via private key. Open PGP Encryption Generate New PGP Key Enter user email and name to generate a particular key. You can add multiple emails to it. Advanced editing on PGP can be defined using the following steps: Choose a specific key type between RSA and Deffie-Hellman. We need to access with the key size to choose the sub-key that needs to be sized between 1024-4096