Existing users, 
Afterthought...
Phil Zimmermann "invented" PGP quite a few years ago and GnuPG will be celebrating their 11th anniversary soon. I wonder why in this age of "User Friendly, ready to run out of the box" software, there are still programs that demand quite a bit of technical expertise to install and run (command line or third-party interfaces to fill in the gap) and are still problematic to use. When are those people are going to come out of the "dark ages"?
I posted my original question on 4 forums to get as much feedback as possible from GnuPG users but to no avail. I assume that it isn't a very popular program.
Gene
GnuPG
Install GnuPG without having to compile it.
Version: 1.4.9
Obaervations
Feedback Type: Commentary
Contributed by: gemigene1 Saturday, January 19 2008 @ 12:00 AM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Have Not Tried
Recommend Product: NO
Comments
Obaervations - plaintiger
agreed, exactly. the people who write this software seem to have no grasp of the significance of the Macintosh nor how, nor why, nor even *that* it changed computing forever.
alas...
Tuesday, February 10 2009 @ 05:46 PM PST
Better Observations: Pay for PGP - zunipus
For the kids who can spell but are not interested in RTFM, here is the usual suggestion:PAY for the user-friendliness built into the commercial equivalent program PGP ("Pretty Good Privacy"). It's $99. Works great. Much easier to use.
http://www.pgp.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16529
And if PGP is too complicated or expensive for you, here is another suggestion: GIVE UP and SHUT UP. Please don't stop otherusers from using these great and crucial programs simply because you happen to not have the will to bother understanding them.
Tuesday, March 24 2009 @ 08:36 AM PDT
Obaervations - drumsandmusic
Full ack. That's excactely the way I felt. Maybe I'm just a regular user and not an computer expert, but I've been using computers for quite a while now and installing this with all the extra tool necessary to implement with e.g. Mac Mail and the Keychain Access isn't too comfortable.By the way: 1.4.9 has been released but I can't even find the right directory because the site is WAY to messy. Please please please clean up and make this software more usable for non it-professionals. It's so important. And whithout that it will never get the recognition it deserves...
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Wednesday, April 02 2008 @ 11:14 AM PDT