stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:
At 10:58 PM 11/6/96 -0500, you wrote:
subject says it all.... Im just wondering is (and where) there is a windows version of PGP.. thanks!
There are two separate issues - PGP with a Windows GUI, and PGP that really runs as a Windows process, rather than needing to fire up a DOS window. There are a dozen or so Windows GUIs for PGP, many of which are on ftp.ox.ac.uk. I especially like Private Idaho; I think the path to it is www.eskimo.com/~joelm/ (also ftp.eskimo.com). Current version is about 2.8 ; I'm not running it because it dropped support for ViaCrypt (due to problems with ViaCrypt 4.0), and I like using ViaCrypt. I'm also having problems getting the older versions to work on Windows NT (sigh...)
For a real Windows version, you can buy ViaCrypt (about $100-130?) At least inside the US, to use the interesting RSA methods except through the official external interfaces to RSAREF, you need permission from RSA. Basic PGP for DOS/Unix/Mac has this, but there isn't a blessed Windows version except ViaCrypt, a commercial product. For commercial applications, you probably also need ViaCrypt anyway. It was a nice product before they added Key Escrow support. Now that Phil has bought them, they'll presumably return to political correctness on that issue.
I did a port of PGP to a Windows DLL a long time back, but I never got around to releasing it. I could bring it up to date and put it out there if there is popular demand. Cheers, Ben. -- Ben Laurie Phone: +44 (181) 994 6435 Email: ben@algroup.co.uk Freelance Consultant and Fax: +44 (181) 994 6472 Technical Director URL: http://www.algroup.co.uk/Apache-SSL A.L. Digital Ltd, Apache Group member (http://www.apache.org) London, England. Apache-SSL author