Right on! Now PGP will be so easy that even a caveman can use it. Seriously though, this will really do wonders to encourage security among the masses out there that are just too intimidated to use the existing PGP software.

PGP Corporation has launched a radical overhaul of its PGP desktop security suite aimed at making its products more comprehensive and easier to use. PGP Desktop 9.0, released Monday 9 May, features “automatic operation so email, instant messaging (IM), whole disk, and file encryption are secure without user interaction or training”, the blurb boasts.

PGP Whole Disk encryption means an entire laptop, including USB drives and backups, can be secured at one fell swoop against previous approaches where users have used the software to set up a virtual, encrypted disk on their PC. Existing product features - such as PGP Virtual Disk encryption, PGP Zip (file compression), and PGP Shred (permanent file deletion) - have been retained. [Read the rest]