Re: macworld crypto articles

>> In article <4444rl$nrh@life.ai.mit.edu> Chen writes:
>> > It's truly a deplorable state of affairs.
>> 
>> For the next version, include PGP free with every version of Quicken,
>> and have Quicken just "call" PGP.
>> 
>> Of course, users can encrypt their files now with PGP.  Is there an
>> Intuit bboard where someone could post instructions?
>
>This is a good idea.  I'll bring it up with the appropriate people.
>
>Right now, we only have some cheesy forums going on Compuserve and
>Prodigy; however, keep your eyes peeled.  We have other stuff in the
>works.

PGP is probably too unweildy for the non-hobbyist to comfortably use. I don't know if anyone else has suggested it but I'd strongly encourage Intuit to make CryptDisk for the Mac easily available. I use it to maintain an encrypted partition for my financial data and the user interface is quite simple. I believe the DOS equivalent is SecureDisk.

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|Steve Bryan                Internet: sbryan@gofast.net
|Sexton Software          CompuServe: 76545,527
|Minneapolis, MN                 Fax: (612) 929-1799
|PGP key fingerprint: B4 C6 E2 A6 5F 87 57 7D  E1 8C A6 9B A9 BE 96 CB
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> PGP is probably too unweildy for the non-hobbyist to comfortably use. I=
>  don't know if anyone else has suggested it but I'd strongly encourage=
>  Intuit to make CryptDisk for the Mac easily available. I use it to maintain=
>  an encrypted partition for my financial data and the user interface is=
>  quite simple. I believe the DOS equivalent is SecureDisk.

I think that it's a good idea to make users aware of the options.  I
haven't used CryptDisk or SecureDisk myself, but I'll check them both
out.

   - Mark -


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Mark Chen 
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finger for PGP public key
D4 99 54 2A 98 B1 48 0C  CF 95 A5 B0 6E E0 1E 1D