PGP for Intel-based Macs debuts

Earlier this month, we reported that PGP Corporation informed us that it was working on an Intel-based Mac compatible edition of PGP. Today the company announced the release of PGP Desktop 9.5 Public Beta, the first Universal Binary edition of the e-mail encryption software.

A full list of feature enhancements for this version:

• Intel-based Mac support is delivered through a Universal binary for Mac OS X users, along with an improved Mac user interface.
• PGP Whole Disk Encryption introduces encryption of entire non-boot volume hard disks for Mac OS X, including multiple-user support and full compatibility with PGP Whole Disk-encrypted disks from PGP Desktop for Windows.
• Dynamically re-sizable virtual disks. No more having to create new virtual disks and copy contents as they grow in size.
• Messaging Policy Enhancements introduces a number of new policies in the Messaging Policy Editor including sending signed-only messages by policy, triggering encryption/signing behavior based on message size, and searching specific keys.domain for key look up.
• Notifier delivers comprehensive status and control for your outbound messages. Know the results of key lookups and exactly how the message will be sent to each recipient prior to deciding whether to send the message.
• Full S/MIME Support has been added to the Outlook MAPI and Lotus Notes messaging components. Support for separate signing and encryption keys.
• FIPS 140-2 Integrity Checking option.
• International character set encoding improvements.

The new public beta release is available as a 21.4 MB standalone download.

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