No More PGP, What are you to Do?
I'm sure that you have read about the end of the standard PGP due to
the latest decision from Network Associates. They have decided to completely drop their PGP product. This means no product development and no support.
So what are you to do if you want to use PGP on your XP machine or another Win32 environment? There is an answer.
The brilliant developers at GnuPG have ported there product to win32. This in
it of itself is not very user friendly because gpg is 100% command line
driven.
To ease the use of GnuPG on a M$ box, there is a fairly easy to use GUI called GPGshell. This looks and feels exactly like the Network Associates version of PGP. In fact a user that knows how to use the NA PGP, can pick up how to use this tool in about five minutes.
In fact I recently read an article about many companies switching from PGP to GnuPG because of PGP no longer being developed or supported. You can download GnuPG for Win32 from: http://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32-1.0.6-2.zip
You can download GPGshell from: http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/gpgshell.html
Have fun. Hope that helps if you are faced with setting up a PGP-like environment on Win32.
-encryptedecoli
