Installing and using PGP on Mac OS X
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Under Mac OS X, PGP is already installed in the form of the free software GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). You can check out the program and the version you have from the Terminal application (Applications->Utilities->Terminal). For example:
Last login: Fri Mar 5 08:11:22 on console snooker:~ adelayde$ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.8 Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Now everything will work fine without the need to install anything else, you can encrypt messages and files already with this program installed. However, there is a rather nice graphical front end to GPG, called the GNU Privacy Guard, the latest version of which is 1.4.9. Download and install this:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/macgpg/GnuPG1.4.9.dmg?download