PGPTools and PGPKeys

[Ralph Sanford]

On Sun, 07 May 2000 20:13:22 +0100 (BST), Simon Bowring wrote:

>
>I was (clearly) asking if an OS/2 GUI front end for PGP supports versions 
>2.6.x and 5.x versions of PGP - which have entirely different and 
>incompatible command line arguments.  How often should I "get out" to 
>ensure that these pieces of software share the same arguments?
>
>If you didn't know that, then perhaps you shouyld get out more often?
>
>Oddly, the command line differences have a much bigger impact on correct
>operation with front ends than US export paranoia!
>
>Simon
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My experience with PGP for OS/2 is that none of the GUI for v2.6.x will
work with v 5.x   As you state the command line structure is completely
different between the two versions.   

As more of the people I correspond with upgraded to PGP v 5.x and 6.x , I
had a need to go to PGP v 5 whether there was a GUI available or not.  
My solution at the time was to switch emailers from MR2 Ice to PMMail as
PMMail handled about 80% of my PGP needs and worked with PGP 5.0.  (MR2
worked with v 2.6.x but I could not get it to work with v 5.0 even using
the esecure scripts from W. Gieger.)   For the PGP actions that PMMail
could not help with there was always the command line, but I found it
much faster and easier to boot into NT and use the PGPKeys utility that
comes with the windows versions of PGP.  

Recently that has been available a GUI for PGP in OS/2 using v 5.0.  Try
PGP Keys for OS/2 (my copy says v 0.91), the home page is
http://Bohn-Stralsund.de   Your needs for PGP may be different but this
utility along with PMMail handles all my PGP requirements except for ONE.

PMMail/2 can not encrypt attachments with PGP or handle incoming
attachments that have been encrypted.  PMMail for windows does handle
these.  At the time I acquired PMMail I was informed by Southsoft that
this would be addressed in the next version of PMMail/2.  We are well
past that point now and I am still waiting for this fix.


Ralph Sanford        -        If your government does not trust you,
rsanford@telusplanet.net    -    should you trust your government?

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