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PGP 8.0 Beta Released

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-okay-news dept.

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."

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  1. That doesnt seem right... by Worminater · · Score: 0, Redundant

    2 months till data is lost? Seems odd... Why would htey impliment such an item? would that not keep people from using it on the pure basis of, no matter how much they like it, having to change it to something elselater? Or... are they going to make it upgradeable to pgp 8.0 directly from the beta? That would seem to me(in my grosly uninformed ignorance...) to lead to all kinds of stability isues.... unless the upgrade did nothing but take out the lock out? again....

  2. Huh? by user311 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "One word of caution however: On Friday, December 6th, 2002, the beta will expire, at which time access to encrypted data will be prevented."

    Is there something I am misunderstanding? I would believe that few people would use this if the data was unusable past December. Wouldn't not doing this make more people use it, and in turn more rigorously test the program?