[thelist] cross platform PGP

Iván Cervantes lord.icervantes at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 23:57:34 CDT 2009


Maybe gpg works for you. http://www.gnupg.org/

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Paul Bennett <Paul.Bennett at mch.govt.nz>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> I'm looking to encrypt data on a USB drive using PGP.
>
> Reality:
>
> I use Mac at home, Windows at work.
>
> I use a USB drive to transfer files to / from when required but I don't
> want to risk losing the USB drive and having the data available by the
> 'finder'
>
>
>
> Theory:
>
> I can use PGP to encrypt the data on the drive, store a copy of the key
> on my work and home computers and then encrypt and decrypt as needed.
>
>
>
> Trouble is I haven't found a PGP client which works cross platform.
> Portable PGP is java based but oddly enough doesn't work on Mac (even
> with Java installed).
>
> Does anyone know of a decent cross platform PGP encryption / decryption
> / signing client?
>
>
>
> Paul
>
>
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