Let me clear a couple quick things up here. > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben McGinnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 6:26 PM > To: TERRA209792 > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Encrypting e-mail > > > TERRA209792([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Fri, May 17, 2002 at 12:18:47AM +0200: > > > > What is the best free software for encrypting e-mail? > > Any sugestion? > > > > It must be compatible with outlook express and outlook 2000. > > Many people swear by PGP/GPG (basically anything which uses the > OpenPGP standard. The Windows version has plugins for Outlook Express > and Eudora, possibly other MUAs as well, it's been a while since I > checked. With the toolbox it comes with, though, it's very easy to do > things like sign or encrypt a highlighted bit of text in any program > (via the clipboard).
You can use the clipboard method if you wish, but many modern "plug-ins" for MUAs do it all from the window or the MUA you are using. Its sort of unclear what he meant here. > The only issue is that the current (and very likely final) release > does not play well (if at all) with Windows XP. It does, apparently, > work on all other Win32 platforms. The final release of PGP for Win9x that is. There are still text based PGP or GPG (GNUPG) that you can use fine, and that many of the above mentioned MUA plugins work with. > Of course I don't know if anyone has tried to actually compile a > version for XP from the source, rather than merely trying the > Win9x/ME/NT/2000 executables. Once again, this is for the Win9x "pretty" version of PGP, this does not apply to the text based or "DOS based" versions of PGP and GPG. > Still, it's worth looking at: > > http://www.pgpi.org/ > http://www.openpgp.org/ Also check out http://www.gnupg.org > > Regards, > Ben > Just to clarify a little, Thanks Mike
