[13365] in Cypherpunks
Re: Windows don't do PGP? Menus?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (thumper)
Sat May 7 16:42:47 1994
Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 13:38:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: thumper <thumper@kaiwan.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9405071902.AA01131@toad.com>
On Sat, 7 May 1994, Gary Jeffers wrote:
> "Authority serves itself." - hey!, I said that.
>
> It has been complained that encryption programs are not user friendly
> enough for the average computer user who is not a computer freak - that
> is for the great majority of computer users. This limits heavy crypt
> access for the masses & empowers the state. This brings me to think of
> Windows.
> I myself am expert with Dos, but my experience with Windows is limit-
> ed to shelling out to get to Dos. It is my understanding, however, that
> Windows has a GUI that is designed to lead amateurs though applications
> with ease. In that case, my question is, has there already been written
> a port of PGP to Windows? If so, then probably 30% of computer uses
> could easily use PGP. If not - why not? There is a lot of hand wringing
> going on about the masses not being able to use good crypt due to a
> lack of user friendly programs.
I ran into a nice shareware program for windows called PGP Front, which
is basically a windows front end for PGP that works excellently. I'll see
about putting it up on soda.berkeley.edu since I didn't notice it being
there.
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