At 3:30 PM -0800 2/13/97, P.J. Westerhof wrote:
At 12:10 7-02-97 -0500, Timothy Hill wrote:
Meanwhile, a beta version of "Pretty Safe Mail" http://www.highware.com/highware/PSM/safemail.htm is available from Highware in Belgium. It's PGP compatible, and its user interface is a great leap forward from any Mac PGP front end I've seen. But, it still has some deficiencies, it's very slow (25 seconds to sign this message on a 25 MHz 68040 vs. 4 seconds for ViaCrypt PGP 2.7.1), and (as was recently discussed on a couple of these lists) its source code hasn't been published or externally audited.
And today - one week later - *no* version is currently available. I would say this adds to the reservations some of us may have had about PSM. Thus far PGPMail 4.5 leaves out not only Mac-users, but W3.11-users also. I have asked PGP.com what they intend to do about the 3.11-users (W32s-enhanced or not). Since I'm sticking to W3.11 for the time being: somebody else have any suggestions?
I notice that PSM has had a name change concurrent with its availability change. Could the unavailability have to do with a trademark dispute between Highware & PGP, Inc.? Is Highware going to release the source code of VSM? Is PGP, Inc. going to release the source code of PGPMail 4.5? If the answer is no, I am sticking with the free PGP. If the answer is no, I guess these firms are expecting ignorance to be the primary characteristic of their customers.