Thursday, November 28, 2013

GPG4Win

I also looked at GPG4Win. This is a front end for GPG for the Windows environment. It seems to have much of the same functionality as PGP and is compatible with it. It does give users a freeware option if they need PGP capability. The main drawback I see is that GPG4Win has it functionality split into different tools while everything is available in one tool in PGP. This makes GPG4Win a little more clunky and difficult to figure out. Certificates management is done by Kleopatra. This program can also is used to encrypted and decrypt programs. Keys are managed by a tool called GPA. This tool also can do encryption of files as well as from the clipboard. The GPA tool was not included in the default installation. Still it wasn't too bad and is a viable alternative to PGP.

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