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Well, now that I've seen some good and bad reviews regarding the beta version, I'm still curious to hear from someone who uses PGPMail ver. 4.5 with Eudora Pro. From what I've read, it seems the new beta version has nothing new to add - except some quirky bugs and the source code that's supposed to be available at some time in the future.
Has anyone compared the above?
I've been using 4.5 since it was in Beta and I paid the $29.95 to upgrade to it when they started charging (they have you cut and paste your public key into the form to prove you are upgrading from a free version of PGP). I downloaded 5.0 a day or two ago and have been using it. It is possible to use both on the same machine although you have to watch your key location. I Use Windows 95. Installation of PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 went OK. Unless you have the latest Beta of Eudora (3.0.2 B4) it installs the files necessary to upgrade your version of Eudora. Unfortunately, 3.0.2 B4 expires in June so you'll have to continue upgrading. My only problem was that when I had the program move and rename my key rings, I forgot which key file I was pointing to and made my secret ring my public ring for a few minutes until I reinstalled. The program puts its menu into the "tray". Its menu is shorter than the PGP Mail 4.5 menu because the key handling is done from the PGPkeys program. It displays a graphic key list and you can point and click and drag and drop to perform most key management tasks. The new features are 1) automatic lookup of keys from the keyserver of your choice (defaults to PGP Incs keyserver). 2) automatic signing (or even encryption) of outgoing mail. You click <Queue> in Eudora and it prompts you for your passphrase. 3) Use of ElGamal (DSS/Diffie-Hellman) instead of RSA for your key if you like. 4) Use of PGP/Mime for outgoing messages if you like. 5) it will cache you private key in memory for a user configurable length of time (default is 120 seconds) so that you can easily encrypt multiple messages. It has worked fine so far. Digital signing and encryption seem faster than with 4.5. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 5.0 beta Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBM4GEWIVO4r4sgSPhAQF9lAQA1F/3d8PFRRN1LPpp+xcRPZ9izAZIN6Nc 3Mpj4dqLncqxRcqzahAGQXjrxGZZ7GtW4rquAAWR5QncxPMp2DDXeDSkiIbbnB3e +qdbhs3SrENkLK9f195KpSBhMhXFeVJQ3A4oOM3VqHEXyi2DXKxaj805tRV11xW/ n+NOO6v8JNo= =2Dxy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----