PgpEudra, a PGP-shell for Eudora
PgpEudra is a PGP-shell that runs as an extension to Eudora.
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy, written by Philip Zimmermann)
is a program for very good public key encryption of textfiles.
This is a DOS-program, that should be run from the DOS-commandline.
Eudora from QUALCOMM is a very popular mailprogram for MS-Windows.
As far as I know there are no good free PGP-shells for use with Eudora available,
so I decided to write one myself. This one extends the menu of PC Eudora with an
item "Run PGP..." and adds a pushbutton to the toolbar. That means
that you can start PGP from the Eudora menu or by clicking the button.
Eudora + PgpEudra
PgpEudra finds out what to do. First it copies the data in the current window
to a textfile on disk. Then it starts PGP.EXE in a DOS-box and specifies the right
command-line to decode, encrypt, sign or checksign the text or (if it found a key)
to add a key to
the public key file. The decoded text is returned in the current window if possible.
Otherwise you can paste it into an editor of your choice. The encrypted text is
always put in the current window.
I don't pretend to make a complete PGP-shell, but I'll add some features
in the near future. These are described in the document
"What to add to PgpEudra".
New versions will be available from my homepage.
Summary of features:
- Completely integrated in Eudora
- You can even undo PGP-actions
- Easy-to-use interface
- Easy to install
- Button to start PGP-functions (from version 1.00).
- Smaller than 100 kB
- No extra libraries needed
- Almost no extra memory requirements
- No copy and paste needed
- Available by WWW and ftp
- HTML Manual
- Freeware for non-commercial use.
- PgpEudra 0.23
- Runs with the 16-bit versions of PC Eudora 1.4, Eudora Light 1.5.x and
Eudora Pro 2.1/2.2/3.0. It is completely freeware, even for commercial use.
- PgpEudra(16) 1.00
- Runs with the 16-bit versions of PC Eudora 1.4, Eudora Light 1.5.x and
Eudora Pro 2.1/2.2/3.0. It is freeware for personal non-commercial use and
shareware for commercial use. Version 0.3x (=1.00 and bugfixes) is the
last one that supports PC Eudora 1.4.
- PgpEudra(32) 1.00
- Runs with the 32-bit versions of Eudora Light 1.5.4 and
Eudora Pro 2.1/2.2. It is freeware for personal non-commercial use and
shareware for commercial use.
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