PGP for Personal Privacy

For keeping your electronic correspondence private, we endorse PGP for Personal Privacy. It was the easiest of the four programs we tested to install and use, and it's free for nonbusiness purposes. (For business use, Network Associates expects you to cough up $40.) Like the other packages reviewed here, PGP uses a public key/private key encryption scheme (see "Security Speak" for definitions). To send another PGP user a private message, you must have that person's public key. If you do have it (people usually put their public key at the end of their e-mail messages), you can copy and paste it into the PGPKeys window. The PGPKeys program also lets you search special servers on the Internet that contain the public keys of everyone who posts one. When you find the public key you're looking for, you just select it from the list and click the Add button.

PGP works with any program. Encrypting is as easy as highlighting text, copying it, and clicking on the PGP icon in your system tray. PGP will encrypt or sign any text in the clipboard.

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