PGP Corporation develops
secure-messaging and information-storage solutions used by thousands of
corporate and millions of individual users worldwide to protect their
confidential, sensitive, and proprietary information
The recognized worldwide leader in secure messaging and information
storage, PGP Corporation develops solutions used by business,
government, individuals, and cryptography experts to secure proprietary
and confidential information.
PGP has 3 suite of the products, for desktop users for corporate users and for gateway. Please find below information on it.
1. PGP Enterprise
It is a desktop stand-alone
tool for encryption of email, file and disk. It has a very good feature
call SDA (Self Decryption Archive), where you can encrypt the file with
SDA pass phrase, you have to inform the recipient the pass phrase to
open the file. (Similar as password protected zip file).
email Encryption: This is the case wherein PGP will work
as a plug-ins for supported email clients, where in you can encrypt
entire email including attachment and body. Here both the ends you have
to maintain the key ring. Key ring is an area on local PGP machine
where you can store multiple publice keys. Using public key from the
sender’s key ring, the emails are encrypted and the reciever can
decrypt the same email by using his private from the local key rings.
File Encryption:
Encryption with public key:
Encryption with SDA (Self Decrypt
Archive): Here you need to communicate the passphrass of the SDA file
to the other end (receiver).
Disk Encryption: Here you can dedicate an area onto your
hard disk say 100 MB and decrypt it, now you can store/ copy your
important/ critical data/ information onto it. The moment you encrypt
this area, it will not be visible.
NOTE: File Encryption with
SDA (Self Decryption Archive). Here you need to communicate the
passphrass of the SDA file to the other end (receiver).
PGP Administration
Using this component you can
configure predefined customized installable package and the same can be
managed via Key Server after deployment. Basically policy enforcement
(lock down the option) for the PGP Desktop.
PGP Key Server:
This is the place where you or your
organization can share their public keys. It also enforces the policy
defined at the PGP Administration
This is the new product and
it used at the gateways. Its like SMTP relay server. The PGP Universal
server does the encryption and manages the public and private key
internally. This product works in 2 modes:
The mail will store on the PGP server: In
this case the PGP Universal server will send a link to the recepient
which points to the PGP Universal server where the recepient can see
his mail after authentication.
The mail can be downloaded at user end
locally: In this senario a PGP agent (Settelite Client) has to be
installed at the recepient end, then he will able to download the email
to his local machines.
NOTE: THE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN RECEPEITN AND PGP UNIVERSAL SERVER IS ENCRYPTED
