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MACPGP CONTROL - MPGPC
MacPGP Control (or MPGPC for short) is an AppleScript® application
that offers an easy-to-use, more Macintosh® friendly user
interface to MacPGP®.
MacPGP Control relies on your AppleScript-aware version of MacPGP to
perform encryption and decryption. For information on how to obtain
MacPGP in the USA or Canada, first refer to that site using your FTP
client (Anarchie, Fetch, etc...) or a World Wide Web browser
(Netscape, MacWeb, etc...). For non-USA citizens, information on how
to obtain MacPGP is available at Ståle Schumacher's International PGP
Home Page.
The main features of MPGPC are grouped into three categories:
* MacPGP related features
* Eudora and Claris Em@iler related features
* Macintosh related features
The current version of MacPGP Control is 1.0 fc 1. You need, among
other things, the Scriptable Finder to run MPGPC. If you don't have it
or cannot obtain a legal copy, I cannot help you and you will be
wasting your time and money downloading this software. All other
components are available.
MacPGP Control is US$15 shareware.
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MACPGP CONTROL FEATURES
MacPGP related features
* Supports all scriptable MIT and International versions of MacPGP,
including the recently released MacPGP 2.6.3ia.
* Generation of public/secret key-pairs up to 2048-bit long.
* Update of PGP public key information of user keyring members
through TCP/IP connection.
* Definition and use of nicknames for Users and Groups recipients.
* More user control for keyring related actions, through a true
Macintosh Human Interface and -in some cases- direct manipulation
of keyring file data, including: editing trust flag byte,
enabling/disabling key(s), extracting, checking, certifying,
fingerprinting, and forcing Warn-Only bits.
* More user control for PGP and conventionally encrypting text and
binary files. When PGP encrypting file, users can designate more
than one recipient.
* Secure clean clear-signed PGP ciphers, through the implementation
of features such as: expanding tabs, transliterating non-USASCII
characters, and word-wrapping lines before processing and handing
over to email application.
* Viewing of PGP packets for educational and debugging purposes.
* Opaque signing (asciified clear-signed text).
* Transparent use of user's UserIDs found in his/her secret keyring
file.
* Encryption to multiple recipients.
* Generates Key Revocation Certificates.
EudoraTM and Claris Em@iler® related features
* Allows working with more than one message at a time.
* When replying, MPGPC quotes initial message paragraphs.
* When replying, MPGPC generates an attribution text.
* Supports Attachment(s) to message. Attachments are treated in the
same way as the message; ie. PGP Encrypted, etc...
* Supports drag-and-drop Finder files to Attachments listbox.
* Supports latest Eudora versions (2.1.4, 1.5.4 and 3.0b) and
Emailer 1.0v3.
* Supports Eudora versions (2.1.3/1.5.3) known to break certain
scripts.
* (Eudora only) User-configurable Auto Move PGP messages to
designated mailbox.
* User-configurable Auto Decrypt source data before processing.
Macintosh related features
* Encryption of voice messages recorded by Mac sound input devices.
* Easy to use, point-and-click Macintosh User Interface.
* Extensive support of drag-and-drop.
* Documented handlers calls for use by other scripters.
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New in fc 1
* First time packaged as a complete application, including FS and
needed 3-rd party osaxen.
* Added printing support -only works with LaserWriter drivers; not
with LaserWriter8.
* Added the export as text feature to message windows.
* Re-wrote the File Encryption part to make it more versatile,
robust and nicer.
* Added Filtering and Sorting to Keyring management windows.
* Added Filtering to Addressbook management windows.
* Revisited the interface.
* Added support for plug-ins. Finished both Eudora and Emailer email
plug-ins as well as the TCP/IP Querry plug-ins (Netscape & TCP/IP
osax). Started writing Netscape Navigator and Microsoft®
Internet ExplorerTM email plug-ins as well as the Internet
Explorer and NCSA Mosaic TCP/IP Querry plug-ins.
* Started writing the Help Guides for use with Apple Guide software.
* Updated the documentation.
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Downloadable software
The full MacPGP Control (MPGPC) distribution package can be downloaded
from this site. It is (or will soon be) also available from:
* The InfoMac archives in the /cmp directory,
* Ståle Schumacher's International PGP home page,
* The (University of Milan) Italian cryptography archives,
* The MacScripting ftp site.
Because I don't have full control on the final name of the
distribution at these sites, you should always look for a file name
that refers to MacPGP_Control, MacPGPControl or MPGPC.
Note:
Since the release of 1.0fc1, a bug in the MPGPC Manual was discovered
which caused the system to hang :-( A working copy of the MPGPC Manual
is available for download from this site. Please note though that the
copy refers to a MacPGP Control 1.0fc2. This software has not yet been
released, but will be sometime in July this year.
* The MacPGP Control User Manual,
* The signature certifcate for the manual.
MacPGP Control was developed in AppleScript English dialect, with
FaceSpan® . It is packaged as an application and requires that you
have the AppleScript extension in your Extensions folder.
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SIGNATURE CERTIFICATE
I have prepared a detached signature certificate for the distribution
file:MacPGP-Control-cert.asc.If you already have a copy of an older
version of MPGPC, the easiest thing to verify the authenticity using
this certificate is to do the following(based on an excellent tip from
Chris Garrigues webmaster of this site):
1. Download the distribution file,
2. Set your copy of MPGPC as a MIME helper as per the MPGPC
documentation in section Q4 of Tips & How To? chapter,
3. Select Decrypt-Verify behaviour in MPGPC -by clicking behind the
button with the same name in MPGPC main window,
4. With your WWW browser click on the signature certificate referred
to in this page,
5. When MacPGP asks you which file this signature applies to, point
it to the distribution file you downloaded.
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Author: Raïf S. Naffah - Last Updated: Wednesday, 12 June 1996