PCWorld.com: What Does the Future Hold for PGP?

“German businesses are big users of PGP, according to Werner
Koch, lead developer of GNU Privacy Guard in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Many of those PGP installations in Germany are being replaced with
GNUPG, for which Koch’s small business will make its money from
support fees. The code and concept of GNUPG are closely related to
those of PGP.

“‘In the past year, a lot of companies have installed PGP for
their e-mail encryption because of demands from their suppliers to
encrypt business-to-business communications,’ Koch says. ‘Now those
companies have real problems, because there are no more patches and
updates for the product. So some of these companies are removing
their PGP software and asking if we can support GNUPG for
them.’

“GNUPG is the first new form of PGP to step into the void left
by Network Associates. GNUPG is working on a less complex interface
for the application, and installing the program is no more
difficult than downloading any software, says Gary Kessler, a
cryptography instructor at the SANS Institute in Bethesda,
Maryland, and assistant professor of computer networking at
Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, which houses a PGP key
server…”

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