PGP

I was installing the Gnu PGP tools recently, and stumbled onto a command line tool calledplutil. This tool will parse any selected files and validate them as well formed XML. ...

The only apps that seemed to have "broken" were Little Snitch 1.0.3 and PGP 8.0.3 Freeware which were quickly solved by reinstalling from scratch. Otherwise, it went about as smooth as it could. ...

Makes sense they wouldn't use PGP though, that's now commercial software... ...

Only Mozilla worked for me and I had to add the certificate to Mozilla's security preferences. It then becomes available for use with Mozilla's mail module. After that, I sent myself a signed email. Mail app recognized the signed certificate, but I still couldn't get encryption to work. I've given up for the time being. I'm going to wait until Panther ships. Hopefully...

There's still MacGPG (the GNU version of PGP, I think, in some way). It has a Mail.app plugin afaik. But as I've said: I've never used it... :/ Here's a call: Apple should make security REALLY easy to grasp, i.e.: On first opening Mail.app, it should ask you whether you want to use GPG (or their S/MIME, whatever) and then create everything for you (asking for passphrases...

MIME security standard. So PGP keys don't work. ...

It seems that Panther's Mail does not have a PGP help file for the German language... ...

Is there anything in particular you are looking for, or just general? I found VPCom, PGP Corporate Desktop, and EnterNet But I found more for OS X. Check out versiontracker or macupdate.

THe free, open source version of PGP is called GnuPG. ...