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PGP Installation and Configurations + User Interface

The document discusses the installation, configuration, and user interface of PGP Desktop. It provides system requirements for installation, including supported operating systems and hardware requirements. It then explains how to install and uninstall PGP Desktop, and move it between machines. The majority of the document describes the various features and options available through the PGP Desktop user interface, including accessing features through the system tray icon, using shortcut menus in Windows Explorer, and viewing the PGP log to see encryption actions.

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PGP Installation and Configurations + User Interface

The document discusses the installation, configuration, and user interface of PGP Desktop. It provides system requirements for installation, including supported operating systems and hardware requirements. It then explains how to install and uninstall PGP Desktop, and move it between machines. The majority of the document describes the various features and options available through the PGP Desktop user interface, including accessing features through the system tray icon, using shortcut menus in Windows Explorer, and viewing the PGP log to see encryption actions.

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Qaisar Ayub Sheikh
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Installation and Configurations + User Interface

By
Qaisar Ayub & Sulma Rashid
[email protected]
Installing PGP

System Requirement (Operating System)


Microsoft Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4)
Windows Server 2003 (Service Pack 1 and 2)
Windows XP Professional 32-bit (Service Pack 2 or 3)
Windows XP Professional 64-bit (Service Pack 2)
Windows Vista (all 32- and 64-bit editions,
Windows 7 (all 32- and 64-bit editions Service Pack 1 and 2)

System Requirement (Hardware)


512 MB of RAM
64 MB hard disk space

How to Install

Uninstalling PGP Desktop


Moving PGP from one machine to another
pubring.pkr and secring.skr
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The PGP Desktop User


Interface
PGP User Interface

Accessing PGP Desktop Features

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PGP User Interface

Accessing PGP Desktop Features

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PGP User Interface

PGP ICON

Normal 0peration

Passpharse

Encryption/Decryption Disabled

Busy
PGP User Interface

Right click/Left click on tray icon

View Notifier. Displays the last incoming and outgoing message notifiers
View PGP Log. Displays the PGP Desktop Log. Use the PGP Desktop Log to
see what actions PGP Desktop is taking to Secure your data.
Open PGP Viewer. Opens PGP Viewer so you can decrypt email out of the mail
stream.
Open PGP Desktop. Opens the PGP Desktop main screen. You can also open
PGP Desktop by double-clicking the PGP Desktop Tray icon
Clear Caches. Clears from memory any cached information, such as
passphrases and cached public keys.
Unmount PGP Virtual Disks. Unmounts all mounted PGP Virtual Disk volumes.
Current Window. Lets you use PGP Desktop functionality (Decrypt & Verify,
Encrypt & Sign, Sign, Encrypt) on the contents of the current window.

Clipboard. Lets you use PGP Desktop functionality (Decrypt & Verify, Encrypt
& Sign, Sign, Encrypt) on the contents of the Clipboard. Also lets you clear or
edit the contents of the Clipboard.
Achievement
We have under stand the user interface of PGP
Using Shortcut Menus in Windows Explorer

Right Click on File


Using Shortcut Menus in Windows Explorer

Right Click on Hard drive


Using Shortcut Menus in Windows Explorer

Right Click on Folder


PGP Desktop Notifier alerts

WHAT ?
Displays the small information box that tells the status of incoming and outgoing messages as well as IM
Messaging
service.

Features
See if an incoming email is properly decrypted and/or signed.
See if an outgoing email is properly encrypted and/or signed.
Stop an email message from being sent if the encryption options are not what you want.
View a quick summary of the sender, subject, and encryption key of an email.
Review, at any time, the status of previous incoming or outgoing messages for that Windows session.
Achievement
We have understand concept of PGP Notifire and its administration
Notifire Administration
Viewing PGP Log

What?
See what actions PGP desktop has been taking to secure the data.
PGP desktop users are known as managed users as all settings, configurations,
policies available in their PGP desktop software .
Viewing PGP Log

How to access?

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PGP LOG INTERFACE
References

http://www.pgp.com/products/email_protection/index.html

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