Signing vs. encrypting was: Cipher v public key

[vedaal at hush.com]

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com wrote on
Thu Jun 1 11:46:48 CEST 2006 :

> While I prefer gnupg to pgp myself, I did just happen to see a
> reference to pgp command line today

the cost is *astronomical*

have played around with it when it was released as a free
command line pgp 8.5 beta

has a few features unique to pgp,
which may or may not be of interest to the customers:

- ADK's

- split-key / shared-key capablilty
(this happens to be nice and useful
any chance for a 'feature request' :-)  ?  )

- platform-specific self-decrypting archives,
(a windows user can make an sda specifically for a mac or linux 
user,
but not an sda that works on both)
(this was added in 9.x)

other than that,
it is a very unforgiving and difficult command line to use,
radically different from 6.5.8 or 2.x

it is set up for 'no prompting'
so unless all the options are anticipated and entered in the 
original command,
it won't work

would absolutely *NOT* recommend it,
unless someone _must_ use a CLI with ADK capability


vedaal




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