Description: The PGP Support Package is designed to provide an OpenPGP® (Request for Comments (RFC) 2440) implementation on the BlackBerry device. The implementation enables users who are already sending and receiving PGP protected messages using their desktop email program to send and receive PGP protected messages using their BlackBerry devices. The PGP Support Package is designed to work with PGP Universal version 2.0.2, with either PGP Universal Satellite version 2.0.2 or PGP Desktop Professional version 9.0.2.
The PGP Support Package includes tools for obtaining PGP keys and transferring them to the BlackBerry device. This means that messages that are encrypted using PGP can also be decrypted and read on the BlackBerry device. Users can sign, encrypt, and send PGP protected messages from their BlackBerry devices. Without the PGP Support Package, the user’s BlackBerry device receives PGP protected messages as unreadable cipher text.
Within the PGP Universal Server environment, the PGP Universal Server operates as a network appliance. PGP Universal Server specifies secure email policies designed by the PGP Universal Server administrator. The BlackBerry device with the PGP Support Package installed enforces compliance with those policies for all email messages.
The PGP Support Package includes support for the following:
• PGP Universal Server
• encrypting and decrypting messages, including personal identification number (PIN) messages, verifying digital signatures, and digitally signing outgoing messages
• wireless fetching of PGP keys and PGP key status using either a PGP Universal Server or an external Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) PGP key server
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