PGP releases PGP Desktop 9.0, offers beta for Tiger
updated 06:30 pm EDT, Mon May 9, 2005
PGP Desktop 9.0 released
PGP Corporation today released , currently in beta, brings full support for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (both AIM and Mail.app are now supported); support for international characters such as umlauts, euro symbol and certain other European characters; support for encrypted AIM messaging; and full localizations in German and Japanese.
PGP Desktop 9.0 offers support for all major certificate and message formats, including X.509, OpenPGP, and S/MIME; brings support for new PGP Global Directory service for a trusted, validated, and automatic way to share and retrieve public keys; PGP Command Line to secure automated server-to-server, batch file transfer, and FTP; and more language support.
The company's PGP Universal 2.0 now offers policy management for PGP Desktop 9.0, delivering a complete solution that scales from individuals to enterprises; it manages security policies, key management, and keyserver functions for all PGP Desktop 9.0 clients. The solution lets administrators set policy based on recipients once, and then automatically encrypt and decrypt without requiring any user action.
PGP Desktop 9.0 Home (without PGP Whole Disk Encryption) is $70 for a limited for a non-upgradeable perpetual license. PGP Desktop Professional 9.0, which includes all six modules, designed for individuals, groups, and departments using a company email server and deploying information security one desktop at a time. It is $200 per device for perpetual license or $70 per year for a subscription license.
