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."

Comments

Good to see they're still around

[ShieldW0lf]

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.

Re:That's called "lock-in"

[Oculus Habent]

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.