From: Ebeling, Jr., Herman Frederick (hfebelingjr@lycos.com)
Date: Fri Jan 06 2006 - 20:54:00 EST
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From: kuffya@gmail.com [mailto:kuffya@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 06 January, 2006 06:58
To: pen-test@securityfocus.com
Subject: PGP 9.0
: Hi list,
:
: This topic is not really pen-test specific but I feel it is very often relevant and I
haven't
: seen it mentioned anywhere else. The question is: Whatever happened to the freeware
version of
: PGP?? It seems that the latest v9.0 is only offered as 'trial' from (www.pgp.com). I
searched
: everywhere (www.pgpi.org mit's site etc) but no one has a freeware version anymore (for
windows). Of
: course, if you insist you can find in the depths of the web copies of pgp version 8, for
free,
: and perfectly legal. And there is always GnuPG so the situation is not desperate yet. I
was just
: wondering if anyone has any info on the topic ; has the app silently gone commercial?
:
: Thanks
: S.
:
S.,
Thank you for asking about PGP 9.0, as I'm sure that you're not the only one who's
wondering the same thing. I have
to admit that I was unaware of PGP 9.0 being available or that they no longer offered a
freeware version. I had
however heard, or read somewhere that PGP was working on a version that would seamlessly
sign/encrypt/decrypt one's
E-Mails on I think the server side. I'm sorry, but given that most virus' are able to
replicate themselves via E-Mail.
This too me seems as a way of making the virus appear to come from a trusted source.
I mean stop and think about it for a moment. You are on a list of "secure" users and you
receive an E-Mail from
someone else on the list. It's both signed and encrypted, and contains an attachment that
is likewise signed and
encrypted. Now then ya open said E-Mail, and subsequently the attached file, only to end
up with a computer virus. . .
Herman
Live Long and Prosper
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