PGPmail for Windows, Version 4.5
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anyone running Windows 95 who hasn't grabbed the beta of PGPmail 4.5 from http://www.pgp.com/ is crazy. It works seamlessly with Netscape 3.0 and Eudora Pro 3.0. The 30-day demo of Eudora Pro is at: http://www.eudora.com/prodemo/. It is easy to use. I just installed it and pointed it at my old pubring.pgp and secring.pgp files and went to work. All my messages have been signed since then and some have been encrypted. The installation program found my existing copies of Eudora and Netscape and installed the PGP add in without any fuss. My only problem was finding the controls for the add in which (in the case of Eudora) consist of buttons to encrypt, sign, bring up the program, insert a copy of your key, and actually modify the message. The controls only appear on the message create, and message read windows. Easy to use. DCF -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 4.5 iQCVAgUBMuuKMYVO4r4sgSPhAQFfzAP+LkDjOecHxz0iEVVggLLABxAOE9tVyOLl AIkKlagFqK+lBboo7fETCZtSpmDHcNsJG6Et6BWO5aYf7Artw+jXj+734c+w4RWj zcj6+351LUqT60TmcukH02p2MT0sd8w1dAnhD8+o1E13G5h5N1CF/p6KQjmHOiQ6 9T1ehMax0jE= =E8Pu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
At 11:45 AM 1/26/97 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Anyone running Windows 95 who hasn't grabbed the beta of PGPmail 4.5 from http://www.pgp.com/ is crazy. It works seamlessly with Netscape 3.0 and Eudora Pro 3.0. The 30-day demo of Eudora Pro is at: http://www.eudora.com/prodemo/.
PGPmail 4.5 now has beta 10 available - the download is smaller than beta 9. Eudora Lite 3.0.1 also supports plugins, so it should work. It also supports filters, which has allowed probable flames to quietly vanish from my inbox :-) BTW, from a non-government-user perspective, the questions asked to establish export permission are nicely worded. Rather than asking "Are you a US Subject", and "Do you agree to follow every vague detail of the Export Laws", as some sites do, it asks
- Is the requesting computer located within the United States? [N/Y] - Do you acknowledge affirmatively that you understand that PGPmail is subject to export controls under the Export Administration Act and that you cannot export the software without a license? [N/Y] - Do you certify that you are not on any of the United States Government's lists of export-precluded parties or otherwise ineligible to receive this transfer of cryptographic software subject to export controls under the Export Administration Act? and then has a button saying "I certify that the above answers are truthful", which is flexible enough that I don't have to feel bad about not being _absolutely_ certain that my packets aren't getting routed through Canada, or that I'm not on some list that bans telephone company employees from downloading cryptographic software on Tuesdays, or whether computers 30 feet above the US are subject to this week's export rules :-), or having to say "No" to Question 2 because I understand that you _can_ export this software without a license (just do it) even though the Feds disapprove....
# Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
It really does rock. I owned Eudora 3 already, but if I didn't I would purchase it for using PGPmail alone. Another great feature of PGPmail is that it adds PGP functionality to the Windows Explorer. When you right-click on a file in Windows, a PGP submenu is added to the normal right-click menu, allowing you to encrypt, decrypt, etc. This product really has the ease of use that is needed to get PGP more into the mainstream. Like Duncan, I found it very easy to incorporate my existing keyrings. I'm very impressed. I haven't tried it with NT 4.0 yet, and don't know how well it works. I run the same copy of Eudora with 95 and NT, so I'm assuming it will be fine... Rich _______________________________________________________________________ Rich Burroughs richieb@teleport.com http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/ See my Blue Ribbon Page at http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/blueribbon/ dec96 issue "cause for alarm" - http://www.teleport.com/~richieb/cause/
Bill Stewart
At 11:45 AM 1/26/97 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
Anyone running Windows 95 who hasn't grabbed the beta of PGPmail 4.5 from http://www.pgp.com/ is crazy. It works seamlessly with Netscape 3.0 and Eudora Pro 3.0. The 30-day demo of Eudora Pro is at: http://www.eudora.com/prodemo/.
PGPmail 4.5 now has beta 10 available - the download is smaller than beta 9.
Eudora Lite 3.0.1 also supports plugins, so it should work. It also supports filters, which has allowed probable flames to quietly vanish from my inbox :-)
BTW, from a non-government-user perspective, the questions asked to establish export permission are nicely worded. Rather than asking "Are you a US Subject", and "Do you agree to follow every vague detail of the Export Laws", as some sites do, it asks
- Is the requesting computer located within the United States? [N/Y] - Do you acknowledge affirmatively that you understand that PGPmail is subject to export controls under the Export Administration Act and that you cannot export the software without a license? [N/Y] - Do you certify that you are not on any of the United States Government's lists of export-precluded parties or otherwise ineligible to receive this transfer of cryptographic software subject to export controls under the Export Administration Act? and then has a button saying "I certify that the above answers are truthful", which is flexible enough that I don't have to feel bad about not being _absolutely_ certain that my packets aren't getting routed through Canada, or that I'm not on some list that bans telephone company employees from downloading cryptographic software on Tuesdays, or whether computers 30 feet above the US are subject to this week's export rules :-), or having to say "No" to Question 2 because I understand that you _can_ export this software without a license (just do it) even though the Feds disapprove....
# Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)
It doesn't seem to work with the mail program in MS IE, or MS WordMail. I understand why some people don't like Microsoft, but excluding support for popular Microsoft programs seems contrary to their stated goal of promoting the use of crypto. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps
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