PGP or GnuPG

J. Wren Hunt wren at hunt.org
Fri Apr 15 17:26:55 CEST 2005


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Johan wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I am trying to decide if I should use GnuPG or PGP and I got confused when
| I read point nine in the PGP whitepaper
| "http://download.pgp.com/pdfs/whitepapers/Top10_Why-PGP_050105_FL.pdf". To
| me this say that "easy data recovery" is only a matter of money. Am I
| right or where can I read about how ADK and key reconstruction etc
| actually works.
|
| Best regards,
| Johan

IIRC the online help for PGP 8.x (licensed or freeware) has a pretty
good section on ADK. Note that you would have to explicitly specify this
type of key setup in order to get the key reconstruction capabilities -
it's important to note that it's not the default action. You're not
going to be able to take your data to a data recovery shop and pay them
big $$$ to "reconstruct" a key if you don't already have the
prerequisite # of key shares.

Wren


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