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Re: Mac encryption
> What is everyones opinion of the best encryption software forthe Mac?
> Frederic Halper
> [email protected]
MacPGP, available by anonymous ftp from the soda.berkeley.edu site, is
the only one I know of using public key methods, and hence the only
one of real interest to Cypherpunks.
Commerical products (like the various "Kent Marsh" products) are
mostly DES-or-weaker and are oriented toward local file protection.
(MacPGP will do that, too, of course).
About six or seven years ago I bought "Sentinel," from SuperMac, and
used it a few times. The problems were obvious: lack of other users
(so my friends couldn't receive or send), and the symmetric cipher
nature (we had to share keys for a message). Public key systems based
on PGP have solved both problems (though problems of convenience
remain).
--Tim May
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