Pgp security gets linux and win7 support…

After rolling out the first Linux edition of its desktop encryption security software last month together with new support for the latest versions of Windows and Mac PGP Corp. on Monday announced major server updates that will let PGP be managed alongside myriad other approaches to encryption.Released on January 19, the new PGP Desktop 10.0 product brings new support for Windows 7, MacOS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and two flavors of Linux: Ubuntu and Red Hat. The software also works on Windows Vista, XP, and 2000, earlier editions of Mac OS, and Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones, said Karthik Krishnan, senior director of product management, in a briefing for Betanews.

Version 10 also adds greater ease of use and new capabilities not provided by the Bitlocker feature in Windows 7 and Vista, for instance, according to Krishnan.

For example, if you lose your encryption password, you can now retrieve it by successfully answering Q&A challenges incorporated into the desktop software.

PGP 10 can be used either with or without two new server products PGP Universal Server 3 and PGP Key Management Server 3 slated for availability from PGP Corp. on March 3.PGP Corp.

bought the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) code base and name from Network Associates back in 2002. Initially written in 1991, PGP was available as freeware, and widely used on bulletin boards, prior to its productization.

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