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PGP Desktop Home provides individuals a simple, easy-to-use desktop encryption solution to automatically protect confidential communications and digitally stored information with an integrated solution based on strong, broadly accepted security technology.
PGP Desktop incorporates PGP Universal technology to provide automatic encryption, decryption, digital signatures, verification, and recipient key lookup, making it appropriate for both novice and power users. PGP Desktop secures private email, selected files, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and iChat traffic. Includes Unicode
PGP Desktop incorporates PGP Universal technology to provide automatic encryption, decryption, digital signatures, verification, and recipient key lookup, making it appropriate for both novice and power users. PGP Desktop secures private email, selected files, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and iChat traffic. Includes Unicode
What's New
Version 10.2.0:
Messaging
- Improvements have been made to annotations. In a PGP Universal Server-managed environment, your administrator can now specify where the email annotation will be, such as end of message rather than wrapped around the message.
- You can now protect sent message copies for IMAP accounts (available for standalone installations only) to provide additional security so you can protect sensitive emails that you have sent using your IMAP account. Choose to Encrypt, Encrypt and Sign, or Sign Only messages as they are copied to your IMAP Sent Items mailbox.
- In a managed environment, your PGP Universal Server administrator can set policy to enable you to decide if you want to perform signature verification on email messages. If enabled, a new button and/or menu option appears in your Microsoft Outlook or Lotus Notes email client. The button or option will be in the default state set by your administrator but you can choose to override this setting.
- In a managed environment, your PGP Universal Server administrator may have specified certain PGP Notifier settings (for example, whether notifications are to be displayed or the location of the notifier).
- X.509 certificates included in an S/MIME email message sent to you can now be imported to your key ring. The same settings you have specified when public keys are found apply to these certificates. If specified, PGP Desktop extracts and then imports the X.509 certificate to your keyring. If you want to encrypt email using imported certificates, be sure to manually sign the certificate.
- In a managed environment, your PGP Universal Server administrator may have specified a setting so that additional information is included in the Non-Delivery Receipt when a message is blocked. If PGP Desktop is unable to find a key for one or more of the recipients in a group list, the email addresses are listed in the Error Details of the Non-Delivery Receipt.
- A link for More Info is now available on the PGP Portable dialog box displayed when you access data on the device. Your browser launches and the PGP Corporation Support site page is displayed.
- You can now view available disk space and total size of the PGP Portable Disk once the disk has been mounted. When you move your cursor over the dock item for a few seconds, the PGP Notifier message appears and displays the mount status of the PGP Portable Disk as well as the updated disk space information.
- AES-128 and AES-256 cipher algorithm for PGP Desktop for Mac OS X have been enhanced to improve performance of encryption and decryption times as well as disk access times for encrypted disks.
- Enhancement to force the encryption of boot drives, by policy. This includes forcing encryption if policy changed (for example, you previously did not have to encrypt boot drives, and your administrator modified policy to require encryption).
Version 10.2.0:
Messaging
- Improvements have been made to annotations. In a PGP Universal Server-managed environment, your administrator can now specify where the email annotation will be, such as end of message rather than wrapped around the message.
- You can now protect sent message copies for IMAP accounts (available for standalone installations only) to provide additional security so more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.
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PGP Desktop Home provides individuals a simple, easy-to-use desktop encryption solution to automatically protect confidential communications and digitally stored information with an integrated solution based on strong, broadly accepted security technology.
PGP Desktop incorporates PGP Universal technology to provide automatic encryption, decryption, digital signatures, verification, and recipient key lookup, making it appropriate for both novice and power users. PGP Desktop secures private email, selected files, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and iChat traffic. Includes Unicode support, S/MIME interoperability, PGP Global Directory integration, significantly improved compression, and cross-platform compatibility with Windows.
For complete release notes, please visit https://support.pgp.com/?faq=589
PGP Desktop incorporates PGP Universal technology to provide automatic encryption, decryption, digital signatures, verification, and recipient key lookup, making it appropriate for both novice and power users. PGP Desktop secures private email, selected files, and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and iChat traffic. Includes Unicode support, S/MIME interoperability, PGP Global Directory integration, significantly improved compression, and cross-platform compatibility with Windows.
For complete release notes, please visit https://support.pgp.com/?faq=589
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Baddington, B reviewed on 20 Jan 2012
PGP is one of those once-relevant and leading products that wound up getting added to a portfolio of fail that makes Intuit look almost competent.
I am pretty sure that there isn't anyone at Symantec that actually knows anything about Mac OS X and certainly nobody that has an Apple Developer Connection account.
Save yourself. Use GNUPG. Not only does it use OpenPGP keys that are compatible with PGP, but it doesn't suck and cost you $99 for a license. There are a number of GUIs to do cool things with GNUpg instead of PGP here on MacUpdate. If you need key escrow and whole-disk crypto, I realize you can't have File Vault handle that for you, and GNUpg may not integrate with your enterprise whatevers that your VP of Deebaggery demanded your IT nerds buy, but you're better off without it at all than using this product.
Hand to G-d, you will regret this purchase more than you regret downloading Adobe Flash.
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Cerniuk reviewed on 16 Jan 2012
On a 15" MacBook Pro (unibody, 2010) and on a MacBook Air 13" (thunderbolt, SSD) we attempted to encrypt a fresh install of Lion 10.7.2). The encryption kicked off fine and everything looked normal. According to the documentation PGP 10.2 MP 1 should work and we expected the typical reboot after the disk was "instrumented" and clear sailing.
In both cases the reboot after the disk was encrypted ended up with an unbootable disk.
No attempt at recovery worked whether it was booting from another disk and attempt at decrypting nor attempting to use an older recovery tool built specifically by PGP for this sort of problem.
We are 2 for 2 and have no reason to expect anything but failure.
Ref
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/resources/sites/BUSINESS/content/live/DOCUMENTATION/4000/DOC4554/en_US/pgpDesktopMac_102MP1_releasenotes_en.pdf
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Those bastards at PGP were already the gold standard for making it impossible to reach them. Now, Norton has nailed the coffin shut by thumbing their noses at Mac users. I have paid version 10.1.1.10 but can I find the upgrade button to 10.1.2? Hell no!
For most needs, Lion's new Whole Disk Encryption will do fine but no more sending PGP disk attachments, it looks like. I now send documents by encrypted PDF in Preview but that still doesn't cover all of the uses I would put PGP to.
For example, Lion Whole Disk Encryption will only work when there is a system installed. So in cases where I would create a PGP Disk and burn it to DVD, it would appear I am out of luck, (Unless I can find a way to keep using 10.1.1.10 in Lion.)
I was already pissed off with PGP because somehow I found myself no longer able to run DiskWarrior on PGP Disks. I wrote to Alsoft to ask if they knew anything. Their tech guru replied:
"Ok, I've installed PGP onto my computer and I see the basic problem.
When the new PGP is installed, it does something to modify the
IORegistry (which is what keeps track of all hardware and mounted
devices on the computer) and has an effect on the entire functionality
of the computer, not just PGP-modified disks.
For example, with PGP installed, DiskWarrior showed that my computer's
main hard drive, that was currently running the active operating system
on the computer, had no partition map! This, of course, would be
impossible! This indicates that the partition map was being obscured
from our view. Uninstall PGP - and everything is normal. I found other
similar anomalies in my testing.
My guess is that they are modifying something in the low-level of the
operating system in case the user wants to utilize the Whole Disk
Encryption feature. To me, this is beyond dangerous.
So, that's what is happening. Nothing do be done to get past whatever
changes they are making. Sorry I don't have a workaround for you to
rebuild the directory of the PGP Disk Image files."
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So it looks like Symantec will nail the PGP coffin shut. It was killed by greedy, short sighted MBAs at PGP that tried to get rich by selling over-priced, beta software, and looks like Symantec will do the same.
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I use PGP Desktop with PowerMail.
Sending/receiving encrypted e-mail under Lion is much faster than under Snow Leopard, however, PGP Desktop 10.1.2 build 9 is not compatible with Lion. The incompatibility is, that the 'Open PGP Desktop' command does not work, the window does not open. That is a major shortcoming, obviously.
I do not understand how Symantec can post this 10.1.2 which was published on April 22 only on August 1, with requirements "10.5 or later", because "or later" does not seem to be working.
As far as I understand, GPG is also not yet up to Lion, so we are hitting a bump here.
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Mark reviewed on 07 Oct 2010
there is no intrest in mac users.
works perfect in windows but on mac to much is missing (see the other comments)
and it is way to expensive!!
Now PGP is Norton - expect what happens now?
The End of PGP for mac
try gpg for mac it is free and it is easy to use
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PGP Mail integration suffers from assumption problems with the automatic encryption of messages based upon the availability of your recipient's (and your) PGP keys on the PGP server in the sky. If you and your recipient have PGP key sets and you send a message from your Mac or PC with PGP email encryption active, forget about you or your recipient reading that message on any smart phone, any web mail or a system that has not had PGP installed. Automatic encryption causes fumbling, redo's and poor impressions of your ability to communicate.
Because email is one of the principle functions of a computer in business and government, PGP loses ground to the standard Verisign PKI signing and encryption which can be triggered on individual messages from all major email software interfaces.
But beyond that, the encryption of data at rest is as spectacular as always. It is faster than Apple's own FileVault and seamless operations with what appears to be all Mac applications ***including TimeMachine*** make it by far the preferred encryption technology for files and disks. File level and disk image level encryption is also compatible with WIndows so sending either an encrypted disk image or encrypted file to a WIndows user (and back) works smoothly.
And lastly, the price and marketing. This software is overpriced and has the most confusing licensing scheme imaginable. PGP suffers from obscurity because of their marketing and sales greed in the perpetual and expiring licenses, the high hassle factor in obtaining updates, and understanding their ever chaining product names (essentially which options are turned off for any given name and fee).
Really like the product (loved it when email encryption was usable) but the marketing and cost is its worst enemy. This product should be priced at $35 for Home, $65 for professional with whole disk encryption. It is better to charge everyone a fin than to charge a select few a yard. (aka $5 from everyone than $100 from a few)
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"Error
PGP products are not available in your region."
With big trara PGP announced that they have a sales damager for the Asia/Pacific region, sitting in Sydney. Receiving this error-message does not induce positive buying behaviour in AP customers.
No, I am not a resident of North Korea.
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Monkeyjunkey rated on 28 Nov 2011
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