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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.
I find this to be a strange statement. Do we have no interest
in non-public key methods? Seems the Cypherpunks should have
an interest in all forms of crypto. Most users don't currently
use public key becuase they just want to keep thier boss from
sitting down at thier computer and reading the resumes they wrote
for other companies. This can be accomplished with symetrical
crypto just as well, if not faster than PGP.
>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).
Cryptomatic does come with Triple DES which is still a very
strong method.
Unfortunatly MacPGP's biggest draw back is that its interface
is poor and it is hard to use. There is also MacRIPEM which is
written by Raymond Lau, author of Stuffit, and is much easier to
use, but weaker than PGP (but legal).
>
>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).
>
Can't stop without mentioning that my company make a product
called Citadel which does DES encryption.
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