You need their public key to encrypt the message. Let's say you want to send an encrypted message to someone. This is known as a "public key encryption" PGP software uses public key cryptography, meaning that it uses public and private keys. How Public and Private Key Encryption Works?
In this article, we'll explain how to set up and use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) so that you too can send encrypted messages with ease and protect your sensitive data. For example, a typical Gmail user might not have even heard of PGP software, let alone know how to use it. While PGP encrypt has been around since the 1990s, its use never spread much beyond the privacy-conscious and technically-savvy. When it comes to sending secure and encrypted messages, very few protocols come even close to Pretty Good Privacy or PGP encryption.
It's an easier to install and use OpenPGP compliant email encryption add-in for Microsoft Office Outlook.Įncryptomatic OpenPGP integrates tightly with the Microsoft Outlook menu system and the Windows desktop to deliver the benefits of OpenPGP e-mail and file encryption, in a manner so that even non-technical users will benefit.How to Set Up (and Use) Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)? If you have been struggling to get OpenPGP encryption implemented in Microsoft Outlook and/or Windows, we built Encryptomatic OpenPGP for you. We also wanted to use OpenPGP in our business, but we found that the available software tools were either too expensive, too difficult to deploy, too unsupported, or were too unstable to use reliably. Being software developers, and finding that OpenPGP is a well known open standard, we decided to built the app that we wanted to use. The effort turned proved to be more difficult than we imagined, but we persevered. The result is a highly stable, easy to implement Outlook add-in and Windows desktop encryption app.Įnd-to-end e-mail encryption is a crucial tool for protecting your business communications and personal privacy. Journalists use OpenPGP to communicate with sources. Businesses are required by law in the U.S. to encrypt certain types of information before sending by e-mail.
Lawyers, bankers, and accountants use e-mail encryption to protect their clients. A simple Wizard gets new users up and quickly reaping the benefits of using OpenPGP. Encryptomatic OpenPGP has now been installed on tens of thousands of computers around the world.
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