I agree about the key server not syncing with others, but there is that one
benefit: you CAN delete your keys from keyserver.pgp.com. In fact, if you
don't respond to the email message they auto-send every once in a while to
verify the account is still active, the key can be auto-deleted (I don't care
for that idea, but you can always upload it again).
PGP is not a dead product. The forum transitioned to Symantec's and is as
active as the PGP Corp's forum was. Symantec released a minor update about 2
weeks ago. The product can be bought from Symantec's web site in the US; they
are still working on the sales in other countries. There are a lot of bumps in
the road from PGP Corp. to Symantec, but it's not a dead end (at least not for
now). I have used PGP Desktop for Mac (and still due only for the whole-disk
encryption and that may change with Mac OS 10.7's built-in WDE) and can say
without a doubt that GPG and the Mail.app plug-in are far superior to the
expensive commercial product.
PGP Desktop email works only as a mini-email server that intercepts traffic on
the typical mail server ports. I don't like this for 2 reasons:
1. I prefer my encrypted messages to always remain encrypted (even the local
copies). PGP Desktop decrypts the inbound email before it gets to the email
program, so the email program has only the decrypted copy for anyone to read.
Outbound email is encrypted after it has left the email program, so the sent
copy in "Sent Items" is also unencrypted.
2. It only works with smpt, pop, and imap which means it does not work at all
for Mail.app/Entourage/Outlook users with MS Exchange email.
Since the Mail.app plug-in is part of the email program, all mail including
Exchange can be encrypted.
John
________________________________
From: Steve <steveb...@gulli.com>
To: GPGTools User Discussion List <gpgtools-users@lists.gpgtools.org>
Sent: Fri, April 15, 2011 7:47:25 AM
Subject: Re: [gpgtools-users] key server
Semi-related, it seems PGP does not sync with any other keyserver.
Which spoils the use of keyservers. Isn't the whole point that they are
organized decentralized and thus almost impossible to manipulate?
But afaik, PGP Desktop is somewhat dead, since Symantec bought PGP and
currently
it looks like they will discontinue the product (at least they'll close the PGP
forum and I couldn't find any info on PGP on the symantec websites. They only
offer cloud based solutions. Which is a strange idea, since it's not a
openSource and backdoor-proof concept, imo).
cheers,
s.
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