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[budberry]

I took gpg4win off the computer. Every time I tried to use it ,it came 
back with a message that the program had a problem and it was going to 
try to fix itself, which it never did. No use in havening something that 
doesn't work.
Bud Berry

On 7/19/2006 10:07 AM, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Am Samstag, 8. Juli 2006 18:44 schrieb Daniel Magnusson:
>   
>> I think GPG is great have been using the freeware PGP for years, mainly for
>> encrypting sensitive files locally.
>>
>> What are the main difference between GPG & PGP I see most features in both
>> Except whole disk encryption.
>>
>> Any other?
>>     
>
> GnuPG and all the other software packaged by Gpg4win is Free Software
> in the sense of the FSFE (www.fsfeurope.org).
> Security exports believe that Free Software has the potential to be more 
> secure because of its attributes.
>
>   
>> Does GPG have features not in the PGP version?
>>     
>
> I think there will be a few but I do not know PGP, the last version I used
> was 2.x on Solaris. So I do not know.
> The GnuPG Mailinglist and documentation should have more hints about this.
>
>   
>> I only miss shredding included in the geepgp utility, cant really see why
>> it isnt there. Doing it via WinPT I find a bit tediouse with the file
>> manager window?! Any thoughts?
>>     
>
> As far as I know, real deletion of a file is almost impossible on modern 
> operating systems and file systems.
> If you have an improvement for WinPT, the author is certainly very interested 
> in it.
>
> Best,
> Bernhard
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