Open PGP Security | PGP Desktop vs FileAssurity Open PGP
COST OF OWNERSHIP
FileAssurity OpenPGP costs nearly a third less than PGP Desktop Professional.   Pricing is for a perpetual license.
Product   | Price   | Support   | FileAssurity Open PGP Security | $90 | $50 per year (unlimited requests) | PGP
Desktop Professional 10.0 | $239 | $57 per incident | FileAssurity Open PGP Encryption | $65 | $50 per year (unlimited requests) | PGP Desktop Home 10.0 | $99 | $57 per incident |
FEATURE COMPARISONFeature   | FileAssurity   | PGP Desktop   | Secure file and folder encryption   | 
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| Secure archives (.zip files)   | 
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| Strong AES 256 bit encryption (FIPS pub 197)   | 
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| Secure file deletion (US Gov DOD standards)   | 
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| Secure email attachments and message text Support all email clients - MAPI (Lotus, Outlook, Outlook Express, Novell,  Eudora, etc. and  web based email    | 
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| Secure text editor   | 
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| Trusted Authorities - no need to import root certificates in order to verify keys signed by a Certificate Authority   | 
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| Digital signing of files - RSA 2048 bit   | 
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| Cross platform file protection support   | 
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| Supports industry standard certificate formats x.509, .cer, .p7b, .pem, .p12, .pfx, .asc, .pgp, .gpg   | 
| .p7b and .cer not
supported
| Supports industry standard file formats .asc, .pgp, .gpg, .zip   | 
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| Key Manager - import, export, generate, backup and  restore keys, change keystore
password  
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| Certificate / key generation - OpenPGP and X.509   | 
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| Group support (can allocate users into groups for easy selection)
  | 
| only by integration with active directory
or 
Exchange
| Full Disk Encryption / volume encryption   | 
| Win XP only
| Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista   | 
| XP / Vista only
| Free Reader (decryption / verification of files)   | 
| non commercial use only
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WHAT THE ANALYSTS SAY
FileAssurity Open PGP software

| SC Magazine - Group Test Encryption
- Recommend Award
" A competent file encryption system that supports PKI in an open and easy-to-use manner"
  Five star rating for features and value for money
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" FileAssurity Open PGP is a step in the right direction putting simplified PKI into the hands of end-users" - Mike Bobbitt, Information Security Magazine
" FileAssurity
is a powerful and easy-to-use program for encrypting and protecting your data - perfect for offices that need to keep important documents secure" -  Bruce Stewart, CNET / ZDNET
PGP Desktop Software
" PGP is complicated and difficult to use" -  Bruce Stewart, CNET / ZDNET
" PGP's learning curve is steep, and you're left wondering whether encryption has to be this confusing!" - Kyle MacRae, Computeractive
NOTE:   PGP is
the registered trademark of Symantec  .     |