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Symantec To Acquire PGP and GuardianEdge

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that's-different dept.

An anonymous reader noticed the news that Symantec has bought PGP and Guardian Edge for $370 million. They plan to standardize their encryption stuff on PGP keys.

3 of 160 comments (clear)

  1. Re:suckitude by Virak · · Score: 5, Informative

    GnuPG is what you're looking for.

  2. Re:suckitude by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not off-topic at all.

    Symantec will more than likely manage to screw this up just like they screw everything else up. Seriously, once upon a time their virus stuff was good. Now, you've gotta jump through hoops to remove it, their enterprise-level customer service is garbage, so I can only imagine how bad their home user support must be, and at some point their code base for the AV stuff grew so bloated you could run a Toyota (poorly) off it.

    What's wrong with pointing out that they're simply gonna screw it up?

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  3. Encrypt file containers, partitions with TrueCrypt by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 5, Informative

    TrueCrypt is reliable, reputable, fast, free, open source, and works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

    The TrueCrypt documentation is very good, but not perfect.

    TrueCrypt can encrypt a file that contains other files (a drive letter) or encrypt an entire partition, even the boot partition.

    No one I know has any connection with TrueCrypt. We are just happy users.