Portable PGP

Easy to run ppgp

Stalls decrypting large files to multiple recipients. Author does not reply to emails.

The authors appear either unwilling (or unable) to fix the glaring security problems with this software, i.e. the use of keys a maximum size of 1024-bits, and continued use of DSA/Elgamal, which key format has been deprecated. Starting in 2009, 3 years ago now, both the PGP and Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) developers made a decision to abandon the DSA/Elgamal key format, change the default key type to RSA, and change the default key-size to 2048-bits. All this was done for security reasons. The American standards authority NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) published a report which recommended that 1024-bit keys be abandoned by the end of December, 2010. That recommendation became effective 18 months ago, yet we still see Portable PGP using the now-deprecated DSA/Elgamal key format, and the obsolete key-size of 1024-bits. NIST is reponsible for establishing standards for U.S. government computers. NIST is notoriously conservative when it comes to security, and usually very reluctant to make changes. This should come as no surprise, given the thousands of computers that are operated any of the hundreds of agencies in the U.S. government that would be affected by any standards they set. So, when NIST, PGP, Inc., and the GPG developers ALL recommend the same course of action, there's gotta be a problem. Until this software is brought up to current standards, it should NOT be used, period.