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PGP 8.0 Beta Released
James Evans writes "With a release date seemingly scheduled in December, the new PGP Corporation has today released PGP 8.0 Beta. It features Smart Card functionality, Unicode support, Novell Groupwise support, among other things. A Mac OS X Beta is out as well, also with a robust feature set. One word of caution however: On Friday, December 6th, 2002, the beta will expire, at which time access to encrypted data will be prevented."
>What's good in PGP that GPG doesn't have?
A closed, proprietary, potentially backdoored binary code?
Just a quick comment to all those ppl out there who are too thick to see the utility of this (expiry or no):
It's for sending thing's across a network. Which means you send it, recieve it, and unencrypt it. Then it's done it's job.
How irresponsible would they be to leave beta encryption sitting around in use? They've prevented those too thick to ditch the beta from harming themselves... good job PGP.
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
1) It isn't "forcing" - the public doesn't have to buy it. It isn't like choosing an office suite.
2) Paying for products isn't "totally against what we stand for here at Slashdot." Did the name change to GNU/Slashdot, or are you just making assumptions. If a product is free, use it. If a product is good, pay for it. If a product is both good and free, all the better.
3) No one is making them pay to protect themselves. They could use GPG if they really want a free encryption solution.
4) Paying for security is not like paying for music. Relate PGP to your data as you relate locks to your hardware. If you think everything should be free, you probably aren't in the right country (doesn't matter which one you're in, true communism doesn't exist most places).
5) I've said it before, but:
Freedom of information doesn't mean information should be free. Just because you can read the book doesn't mean you don't have to pay for it.
That what was all this school was for... to teach us how to solve our own problems. -- janeowit
It is good to see PGP free from the clutches of Network Associates which was slowly strangling it over the years to the point that I could never find it, often could not afford it, and then they shut it down altogether. There just is no substitute for this application, and I'm overjoyed to see a well-funded company bring it back and breathe new life in it.
I downloaded the Mac OS X beta version and it's so cool looking. Very few of the applications that I get for Mac OS X look like real Mac OS X apps, but this one looks like it was built from the ground up for this OS. Excellent job, keep up the good work PGP!
There are two methods of commonly sending PGP mail.
One is in the normal text of the message, the other is as a mime attachment.
The standard behavior, with the old pgp plugins anyway, was that, if it was the main body of the message, it would be decrypted automatically. If not, you would have to click on the attachment to decrypt it.. the benefit being the attachment method is a bit more 'standard', and perhaps a bit more secure, depending on the environment.
What we really need, though, is something that works equally well in all popular mailers.
(Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Netscape) and has a set of unix tools to allow the oss world to integrate as well.
And the interface needs to be easy.. easy for my Mom.
Outlook's imap support is crap; it won't even do imap & exchange server at the same time without a plugin; you have to set it up in 'internet only' mode.
"You have to use mozilla mail" is not an adequate solution for the masses.
Outlook Express, btw, worked fairly well with the old pgpfreeware plugins, as does eudora. it's just a bit too weird for joe average.
>I didn't realize this would be open source (or >have I not been paying attention, and it has >always been OSS??)
Source available != Open Source. You're allowed to look at the code, but you are not free to take chunks of it and create your own version.
Enjoy the view though.