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
What's New
Version 10.2.1:
There are no new features in this release. This release includes numerous improvements only.
Well, yeah. But this URL:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH166098
says that 10.2.1 is available. But when you go to the Symantec download link, it also gets you a 10.2.0 dmg. So it's Symantec at fault. Typical Windows software company.
It is hard to believe that Symantec would be so brazen as to post this product on MacUpdate while they are in the midst of not coping with a fiasco resulting from its incompatibility with Lion 10.7.4.
The user experience with this is so bad I actually can't believe I used to recommend it to others... on top of that a license won't cost you less than $174/user.
I bet you can't show me a single product for the Mac owned by Symantec that doesn't suck harder than a Twilight novel.
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.
The main issue that has been encountered with 10.2 for us has been the corruption of system disks.
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.
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."
Regarding the upgrade: I do not quite agree. I also bought 10.0 and when I click through my account now hosted at Symantec I find 10.1.2 available for download in my account. Downloading and installing it caused no apparent problems for me.
Yesterday, I received an e-mail from Symantec PGP with a link to a free upgrade to version 10.2.0. Version 10.1.2, shown here, does not seem to be the current version.
There may be an update to PGP 10.1.2 SP3, but its hard to find it on the Symantec web site. Trying to download with the button for PGP Desktop Email for Mac downloads the Linux version, but using the Linux button seems to download the Mac dmg. The version appears to be 10.1.2, but from what I read, it doesn't work on Lion.
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.
I am running PGP Desktop 10.1.2 build 9 on Lion, after upgrading to Lion from Snow Leopard with PGP Desktop 10.1.2 installed.
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.
Current version is most definitely a beta. Boot disk encrypted fine and the WDE boot up works perfectly.....major problems with extra disks in your mac though. 10.0 is sketchy accepting passwords for other encrypted disks within the mac and when it does it fails to mount those disks. At least I'm able to decrypt my extra disks. I can't wait for an update.
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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
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http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH166098
says that 10.2.1 is available. But when you go to the Symantec download link, it also gets you a 10.2.0 dmg. So it's Symantec at fault. Typical Windows software company.
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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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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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