[Mac_crypto] Questions about PGP for MacOS 9.x

[Jon Callas]

On 8/25/02 3:30 PM, "a. l.  c h a r l e s" <alchar@sunbeach.net> wrote:

> (1) Should she stay with PGP 6.x, or should she upgrade to PGP 7?
> 

The most featureful, bug-free version is PGP 7.1.1

> (2) How should she go about installing PGPDisk? (last included,
> apparently, in PGP FW 6.0.x); should she install 6.0.x first, then
> 6.5.x/7.x? Should she do parallel installs in different folders? Can you
> mix and match PGP components with the MacOS installer?
> 

I'd say just install the new thing. It upgrades pretty cleanly.

> (3) The Klima-Rosa vulnerability- are any MacOS versions of PGP safe, or
> has the fix only been applied to GPG? (I know that Windows-PGP ckt
> versions after 6.5.8 are safe)

PGP is safe from this attack, as I remember. There are checks inside PGP
that make it a non-issue, and always have been.

    Jon