"Allie Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/24/2004 05:13 PM wrote:
>There are two 'internal' things about TB! and PGP. There's built in >support for PGP v5,6,7,8 if you have any of those versions otherwise >installed on your system. Enabling this support will make TB! >integrate with with those PGP version and that works very nicely. I >currently use this support with PGP v8 and things are working just >fine with all PGP related macros and menu items functional. > >There's also a fully functional PGP implementation in TB!. It's based >on PGP v2 which is an older version of TB!....PGP v2 supports only RSA type >keys which also require the IDEA encryption algorithm, an algorithm >that's still patented and therefore not used by quite a few GnuPG >users. Hi, Allie. I understand that PGP is some sort of encryption. Can you or someone else explain to someone who knows almost nothing about PGP how it works? For example, if mail is encrypted, how then, can someone at the receiving end without an "unlock" key read the e-mail? What is the advantage of using PGP? Why should I want to use it (or any encryption program)? Unless one sends financial or other sensitive data via e-mail, is there any other reason to use PGP? Are there any negatives, such as conflicts with firewalls or anti-virus programs? How does one install and/or enable the latest version of PGP? Is this separate software that one must buy or does it come with The Bat? Finally, what is "GnuPG"? Thanks. -- Avi Avram Sacks using TB ver. 1.61. (when I'm not using Lotus Notes R5) with Win XP Pro. ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
