PGP Desktop for Mac
By klard | April 13, 2008
Is pretty much broken.
If you are trying to use PGP’s mail feature with Entourage and Exchange it doesn’t work. You can encrypt mail and send it but you cannot un-encrypt the mail in-line. I have found a work around which is to highlight the encrypted string and paste it into a text box then un-encrypt that…pretty hokey but it works. Additionally if you get a PGP encrypted attachment when you double click on it, the attachment gets saved in the clear under your user folder/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Saved Attachments. This has got to be one of the worst features I have seen from a security standpoint. I mean yeah so I have an encrypted attachment so what I was thinking is that you move it to another folder and saved it in the clear….not.
We also purchased the WDE (whole disk encryption) feature and umm it doesn’t work either. WDE does not even see the Mac disk. There are quite a few articles on the web that say PGP is working on WDE for the Mac….too bad that isn’t what the salesperson told us when we were buying it.
In closing we have done quite a bit of work recently while trying to get PGP to work and frankly if you want some of the features described above (sans WDE), GnuPG works a lot better and is free as in beer.
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