How safe is PGP Disk ?

[hergehen]

Hello,

I'm looking into using PGP Disk, how safe is it ? ... do they send anywhere my password ... can anybody in the world unencrypt my information ? (including government)

Maybe there are some other better similar programs ?

Thanks.

 

[Nothinman]

Why would it send your password?

It's as safe as any other encryption scheme, meaning it's up to you to keep the keys and passphrases secure.

 

[hergehen]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Why would it send your password?

It's as safe as any other encryption scheme, meaning it's up to you to keep the keys and passphrases secure.

I heard somewhere, that it does keep a track of all passwords (or keys)

by the way, what are keys used for there ?

 

[Nothinman]

I heard somewhere, that it does keep a track of all passwords (or keys)

What good would it be if there was a repository of everyone's passphrases?

by the way, what are keys used for there ?

Generally keys are the numbers used to encrypt and decrypt things, although I think PGPDisk may just use symmetrical encryption which just needs a passphrase. Usually you have a public and private key, you encrypt something with your private key then only people with your public key can decrypt it.

Use google, I'm sure there are a bunch of web pages that can explain public key encryption better than I can.