On 25/3/02 17:43, "Walter Poxon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know the status of PGP message encrypt/decrypt and key-mgmt > support for Entourage in Office-X? > > I became quite spoiled by the seamless integration of PGP support in Outlook > under Windows and it's one of the (very few) things I miss about that > environment. As far as I'm aware, although there are rumoured to be versions of PGP for both OS X and Windows XP there are no plans to release them. However, there is a GPG option which works with Entourage X - at least it does for me, and I've spent months getting to this point :-) You'll need to download and install: GNU Privacy Guard GPGKeys 0.4 GPGDropThing 0.4.3 GPGPreferences 1.0.2 from: <http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/> Basically to encrypt/decrypt you write your message in Entourage as usual, select the text you want encrypted, then open GPGDropThing and drag your text onto its window. Select encrypt from the drop down menu, then select the key to encrypt to and bingo, you have encrypted text! Now all you need to do is drag this encrypted text back into your email window replacing your plain text message. Yes I know it's not as simple or elegant as PGP but it is the ONLY email encryption solution I know of in X at present beside online services like Crypto Heaven. And, it's faster to do than to describe! The alternative to using GPGDropThing is to encrypt in the Terminal. Your choice. Two things I should point out. One, all keys have to be signed (or have a trust level acceptable to GPG). Two, to encrypt to your key as well as your recipient (so you can decrypt and read your message later) you need to enable 'encrypt-to' in GPGPreferences. GPGPreferences adds itself to your System Preferences. Click to open, then click the + button to add another option, type 'encrypt-to' (without the quotes), then type in your key ID. Press return. You'll almost certainly benefit from joining the MacGPG list. List-Subscribe: <https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/macgpg-users> Setting up GPG can be confusing and frustrating - you'll find the guys who are actually writing these GPG programs on the list and it's the best place to be if you need help. Hope this helps - pb -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
