PGP freeware6.5.8

What's New in PGP Freeware Version 6.5.8 for Windows 95/98, Windows NT, and Windows 2000 Copyright (c) 1990-2000 by Networks Associates Technology, Inc., and its Affiliated Companies. All Rights Reserved. Thank you for using Network Associates' products. This What's New file contains important information regarding PGP Freeware. Network Associates strongly recommends that you read this entire document. Network Associates welcomes your comments and suggestions. Please use the information provided in this file to contact us. Warning: Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. Government. ___________________ WHAT'S IN THIS FILE - About this Freeware Product - Fixes in this Release - New Features - Documentation - System Requirements - Known Issues - Additional Information - Contacting Network Associates ___________________________ ABOUT THIS FREEWARE PRODUCT Network Associates is proud to provide freeware versions of PGP products for non-commercial use. PGP Freeware brings easy-to-use, strong encryption to the masses. You can use PGP to protect your email, your files, and now even your network connections. Let PGP bring a new level of privacy and security to your everyday computer use and communications with others. NOTE: Please refer to the included license for the specific terms and conditions of using this product. _____________________ FIXES IN THIS RELEASE * This release corrects a security-related bug with Additional Decryption Keys (ADKs) that may allow sophisticated attackers to add unauthorized ADK key IDs to the unhashed areas of PGP public keys. For more information about this bug, please review the PGP ADK Security Advisory available on www.pgp.com. ___________________ NEW FEATURES IN PGP 1. PGPnet. PGPnet is a landmark product in the history of PGP. PGPnet secures all TCP/IP communications between the local machine and any other machine running PGPnet. PGPnet has been successfully tested with Cisco routers (requires Cisco IOS 12.0(4) or later with IPSec TripleDES). 2. Self-Decrypting Archives. You may now encrypt files or folders into Self-Decrypting Archives (SDAs) that can be used by users who do not even have PGP. The archives are completely independent of any application, compressed and protected by PGP's strong cryptography. 3. Integrated PGP Command Line. This version incorporates the popular command line version of PGP for Windows platforms. This product provides a convenient way to integrate PGP with other Windows applications and automated processes on your desktop system. Please note that this is intended for single user/workstation use. For use on servers, customers are required to purchase the PGP e-Business Server product. Please contact your local Network Associates Sales representative for more information. 4. Automated Freespace Wiping. PGP's Freespace Wipe feature now allows you to use the Windows Task Scheduler to schedule periodic secure wiping of the free space on your disk. 5. Hotkeys. The Use Current Window feature has been significantly enhanced by the addition of Hotkeys. By using a configured key combination, the Encrypt/Decrypt/Sign functions can be automatically invoked without using PGPtray. This feature is very useful for users using messaging applications for which PGP does not currently have a plug-in, such as Netscape Messenger. 6. Fingerprint Word List. When verifying a PGP public key fingerprint, you can now choose to view the fingerprint as a word list instead of hexadecimal characters. The word list in the fingerprint text box is made up of special authentication words that PGP uses and are carefully selected to be phonetically distinct and easy to understand without phonetic ambiguity. 7. Support for Outlook 2000 and Outlook Express 5.0. This version of PGP adds support for sending and receiving encrypted email in Microsoft Outlook 2000 and Outlook Express 5.0. 8. HTTP Proxy Support. If you are behind a firewall with an HTTP proxy server, PGP now supports accessing HTTP keyservers through the proxy. To use this feature, you must configure the proxy server address in your Internet Explorer preferences. 9. Smart Word Wrapping. The word wrapping in PGP now automatically rewraps paragraphs and even quoted paragraphs resulting in much cleaner signed messages. * PGP ENHANCEMENTS * 1. Support for Windows 2000 operating systems. This release of PGP introduces support for Microsoft's latest releases of Windows. All PGP functionality is available in Windows 2000 except PGPnet. PGPnet will support Windows 2000 in future releases of PGP. 2. Windows 2000 IPSec interoperability. PGPnet running on non-Windows 2000 systems can establish VPN connections with the built-in Windows 2000 IPSec client. (The Windows 2000 system must be running the Windows 2000 High Encryption Pack.) 3. Intel Pentium III Random Number Generator (RNG) support. If your computer is equipped with the Intel RNG, PGP will use the random data generated by the chip in addition to our own entropy collection whenever random data is needed for key generation and encryption. The Intel RNG is currently only available with select Pentium III chipsets, including the Intel 810 chipset. 4. Automatic email plug-in pre-selection. PGP will now automatically pre-select email plug-ins to install on your system based on what messaging applications are installed. Nevertheless, you are still able to change the selected plug-ins at install time. _____________ DOCUMENTATION Also included with this release are the following manuals, which can be viewed online as well as printed: * Introduction to Cryptography * PGP Installation Guide * PGP User's Guide * PGP Command Line User's Guide Each document is saved in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (.PDF). You can view and print these documents with Adobe's Acrobat Reader. PDF files can include hypertext links and other navigation features to assist you in finding answers to questions about your Network Associates product. To download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the World Wide Web, visit Adobe's Web site at: http://www.adobe.com/ This release also includes integrated online help in Microsoft Windows Help format: * Online help: - PGP online help - PGPnet online help Documentation feedback is welcome. Send email to tns_documentation@nai.com. ___________________ SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS To install PGP on a Windows 95, 98, 2000, or NT system, you must have: - Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3/4/5 - 32 MB RAM - 16 MB hard disk space for the client install If you plan to run PGPnet on the system, you must also have: - Microsoft TCP/IP - A compatible LAN/WAN network adapter Note: PGPnet functionality is not available for users of Windows 95a (the original release of Windows 95) or Windows 2000. PGPnet supports Windows 95b (OSR2), Windows 98, and Windows NT 4.0. ____________ KNOWN ISSUES *PGP ISSUES* 1. Mismatching your keyring files can result in data loss. Your public keyring file and private keyring file must be kept in sync. If, for instance, you select a public keyring file that does not contain the public portion of your private key without also changing the private keyring to the corresponding file, you and others will not be able to encrypt to exported versions of your key after that time. In most cases, simply updatin