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Article Excerpt
The most chilling phrase in the online world is "I know your secrets." We all have sensitive information, whether it's financial records, personal or professional e-mail, or confidential business plans. PGP Personal 8.0 takes a direct approach to safeguarding that information: encrypting e-mail messages and files so that only you and your chosen recipients can read them.
PGP uses a technique called public-key cryptography to control access to an encrypted file or disk. Traditional security tools (including options in programs such as Adobe Acrobat) allow you to password-protect files, but that creates a paradox: How do you get the password to your recipient over an insecure channel? The answer is public-key cryptography, which lets you encode items with your recipients publicly available key, making those items unreadable to everyone except the recipient, who has a second, descrambling private key.
With a comprehensive set of features,...
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