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Does anyone still use PGP?

Yes

Yes - OpenPGP in particular via the Enigmail add-on in Thunderbird.

I recall that the government was trying to introduce a backdoor to the encription, did they ever succeed in doing that? I think I have an old copy of it somewhere. Can you still get it in a store?

PGP does offer a government back door. This is why I stopped using it.

Evidently the government didn't find the backdoor in this case.

I met Phil Zimmerman, the guy who wrote it, at the 1996 LP national convention. The NSA may have cracked it but I doubt there's a back door.

I told him a joke from the Cellar written by vsp:

Q: They prevented laptops with PGP from leaving the country because it was classified as munitions. What does that make Windows?

A: A dead shell.

He didn't laugh, and I was devastated.

PGP Corporate edition offers a backdoor for corporations to get into anything encrypted by employees. It stands to reason, they'd do the same for the government.

http://lists.insecure.org/lists/poli.../Jan/0063.html

Radar, a lot of people wouldn't use PGP Corporate, because it is, well, corporate.