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
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| .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)
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| only by integration with active directory
or
Exchange | Full Disk Encryption / volume encryption
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| Win XP only | Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
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| XP / Vista only | Free Reader (decryption / verification of files)
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| non commercial use only |
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 .
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