What is the recommended variant of PGP.
Although I (naturally biased) prefer to use Cypto Kng, I recently needed to use pgp, so I decided to upgrade. I went to PGP.com. Their freeware PGP is fourteen megabytes of mystery code. Something that big and mysterious does not make me feel secure. My current pgp.exe is 250K, for which I have source code, source code that I have looked at. The program performs functions that I understand, in ways that I understand. What is the recommended PGP?
Gnu Privacy Guard is an Open Source PGP replacement. http://www.gnupg.org/ is the main site for the code. I have not examined interoperability with older versions of PGP though. (I will be doing that soon though.) On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, James A. Donald wrote:
Although I (naturally biased) prefer to use Cypto Kng, I recently needed to use pgp, so I decided to upgrade.
I went to PGP.com. Their freeware PGP is fourteen megabytes of mystery code.
Something that big and mysterious does not make me feel secure. My current pgp.exe is 250K, for which I have source code, source code that I have looked at. The program performs functions that I understand, in ways that I understand.
What is the recommended PGP?
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote:
Gnu Privacy Guard is an Open Source PGP replacement.
I have not examined interoperability with older versions of PGP though. (I will be doing that soon though.)
The short version is this: GPG will work more-or-less transparently with PGP 5.x and 6.x, at least for all versions I've played with (most of 'em). It won't play nicely with PGP 2.6.x (or, AFAIK, any older version). ...dave
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