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  • Been looking for a PGP to work with XP

    From Nomen Nescio@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 10 02:43:14 2022
    I did find some open source PGPs that will work with XP, but they're
    all a p.i.a. to use.

    Is there any as simple as NA's 6.5.8 ( Imad R. Faiad's ckt 6.5.8)?
    That's the one I've been using for years.

    All the GNU ones I've tried are mostly slanted toward e-mail usage
    and key usage. I mostly use my present ones for encrypting files or
    plain text, which is going nowhere.

    Don't get technical with me. I'm simply an ignorant user.

    As a footnote, I have yet to personally read anywhere that any of
    the PGP versions have been broken. If one doesn't use nonsense like
    "12345" for their password, that is.

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  • From Johann Beretta@21:1/5 to Nomen Nescio on Sat Jan 22 23:19:19 2022
    On 1/9/22 17:43, Nomen Nescio wrote:
    I did find some open source PGPs that will work with XP, but they're
    all a p.i.a. to use.

    Is there any as simple as NA's 6.5.8 ( Imad R. Faiad's ckt 6.5.8)?
    That's the one I've been using for years.

    All the GNU ones I've tried are mostly slanted toward e-mail usage
    and key usage. I mostly use my present ones for encrypting files or
    plain text, which is going nowhere.

    Don't get technical with me. I'm simply an ignorant user.

    As a footnote, I have yet to personally read anywhere that any of
    the PGP versions have been broken. If one doesn't use nonsense like
    "12345" for their password, that is.


    Using software that old, for encryption, is insane. Your OS stopped
    being supported 8 years ago. If your XP computer is connected to the
    internet, you probably have more viruses than a street hooker.

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  • From David E. Ross@21:1/5 to Nomen Nescio on Sun Jan 23 12:18:02 2022
    On 1/9/2022 5:43 PM, Nomen Nescio wrote:
    I did find some open source PGPs that will work with XP, but they're
    all a p.i.a. to use.

    Is there any as simple as NA's 6.5.8 ( Imad R. Faiad's ckt 6.5.8)?
    That's the one I've been using for years.

    All the GNU ones I've tried are mostly slanted toward e-mail usage
    and key usage. I mostly use my present ones for encrypting files or
    plain text, which is going nowhere.

    Don't get technical with me. I'm simply an ignorant user.

    As a footnote, I have yet to personally read anywhere that any of
    the PGP versions have been broken. If one doesn't use nonsense like
    "12345" for their password, that is.

    My PC:
    Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
    PGP 10.1.2 (build 9) from Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.

    My wife's PC
    Windows XP SP3 x32
    PGP 8.0.3 from PGP Corp.

    The source code of both of these versions were available to the public
    to examine. Several individuals unaffiliated with the developers
    reviewed the source code and concluded there were no backdoors. They
    even compiled to source code and compared it with the binaries the
    developers were distributing and verified that the results were indeed
    the same. As far as I can tell, PGP 10.1.2 was the last version such independent reviews were possible. After that version, the developer
    (Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.) would not release the source code.

    My software archive contains the installers for both versions of PGP as
    well as other versions. While I can provide them, I cannot be held to authenticate the files. If you want a copy of either, reply in this
    newsgroup thread.

    I notice the installer package for 8.0.3 is a Zip file that includes the installer and a detached OpenPGP signature. With 10.1.2, I was able to
    verify the signature against the installer file. The detached signature
    was created by a public key that was already on my keyring. That public
    key was signed by Philip Zimmermann -- the original developer of PGP --
    in 2002. Although Zimmermann's signing key expired in 2003, that does
    not invalidate the key that signed the installer and still provides some assurance of the authenticity of the installer.

    I do not have a detached signature for 10.1.2.

    --
    David E. Ross
    "A Message to Those Who Are Not Vaccinated"
    See my <http://www.rossde.com/index.html#vaccine>.

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  • From harry@invalid.com@21:1/5 to beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com on Thu Aug 4 17:40:20 2022
    On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 23:19:19 -0800, Johann Beretta
    <beretta@nun-ya-bizness.com> wrote:

    On 1/9/22 17:43, Nomen Nescio wrote:
    I did find some open source PGPs that will work with XP, but they're
    all a p.i.a. to use.

    Is there any as simple as NA's 6.5.8 ( Imad R. Faiad's ckt 6.5.8)?
    That's the one I've been using for years.


    I'm still using Faiad's 6.5.8 with my XP 32 bit.

    Why did you stop using it?

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