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Works Great
I've been a supporter of PGP since donating money for Zimmerman's defense fund. The government went after him because he gave the public access to strong encryption technology. I've long tried to encourage people I know to make use of this technology. Even with all the press of celebrities having their email hacked, most people still don't get it. This program makes it easy to use on an iPhone and integrates well with my existing email accounts. Now we just need to spread the word.Show lesskarna8
Good app, full featured
The app is a full-featured one, and will allow you to setup PGP for the first time and create your own keys on the app. The other apps in the app store either don't offer this feature or cost a lot more money, so this is quite valuable on its own.
The only complaint I have is that PGP in itself is a little difficult to understand and the app doesn't quite explain the process to those unfamiliar with PGP. There's no introduction or wizard when you open the app, so you have to go to the Private Key tab and tap New Key. However, the developer is quick to respond to support emails and the website has a good guide.Show lessmr100percent
No secret decoder ring, this.
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) was Phil Zimmerman's brainchild nearly twenty years ago. It is a pleasure to see (and use!) this implementation of the now-standard method for encrypting email. Technology being what it is, sometimes the unwashed masses like me just have to wait for the right guy to come along and make something simple enough to use. This is it.
I've been playing with PGP since the mid-nineties in various forms but now I think I've found the app that will allow wide adoption. It's easy. Seriously, the hardest thing about this is remembering how to spell the name of the author.
Great job, well worth the money.Show lesskententen
Very Useful
I use this app quite a bit: it's one of the few I could find that allow you to encrypt arbitrary files, including pasting from the clipboard. I use it to manage several encrypted files with things like SSNs for my family and passwords or password hints. It's nice to have all that confidential information on my iPad, but encrypted in a way that keeps it safe even if it's stolen. It's pretty simple, but it gets the job done and the creator is good about periodically updating and enhancing it.Show lessDaniel N L
Needs better integration with Photos and other apps
Works extremely well for basic message encryption and signatures. Needs better integration with the rest of iOS, for example, need to be able to "open" a file from one app (such as Dropbox, Photos, etc) directly into ipgmail for encryption. Having to upload to Dropbox first is not only an unnecessary step, it is insecure.
Update: Can now compose messages longer than one screenful but cannot use Copy/Paste once the text is below the bottom of the screen. An odd bug indeed. Keep trying. Fix that, and improve on integration with the rest of iOS (also suggested by another reviewer) and back to 5 stars.Show lessSteve Crow
Great app, great support!
This app is an awesome, usable implementation of PGP/GPG. The interface is really nice, and it's actually somewhat easier for an encryption novice to use than any computer-based program i've seen (except maybe Enigmail, if they already use Thunderbird), thanks partly to the easy in-app key generation.
This is also useful for encrypting notes without resorting to one of the many vault apps, none of which i really like. Just play around with it and you'll start loving it as much as i do.
Also, I contacted the developer about a small problem I had, and got an email response about 90 seconds later. Not too shabby, right?Show lessClaudeJuarez
I Highly Recommend this App!
It is rare in the App Store to come across an app that wraps the clumsy Apple services into a slick, efficient, aesthetic package. I was sending PGP emails back and forth within minutes.
The key recognition and management features make personal cryptography a breeze on your iOS devices.
With more and more stories surfacing about corporate espionage from China and our US government trampling upon our 4th Amendment rights it makes sense for IT managers to arm their people with the right tools to secure communications. For individuals, you can be sure your private correspondence stays private.Show lessViromalpaso
Excellent app, great support
iPGMail works great on both my iPhone and iPad 2. I'm very happy with it, and at a reasonable price! It took me a little while to get everything up and running on both devices, due to my having multiple keys, but once that was figured out, it works smoothly and reliably and is very useful for me. The interface is visually great, too, and the prompt, courteous support by the developer cannot be praised enough. A bit more documentation would be helpful. The app is well worth the price and a pleasure to use.Show lesscoromandal
provides clean solution to a problem
Hi,
This software does what it's supposed to and that is all it needs to do. I like the UI and the feature set. I understand if some people have trouble with the setup as the documentation isn't very clear but it works out of the box.
In my case there was a small hiccup. Do NOT import your own public keys. Just the private one (which includes the public) or you will get an error message.
I tried to look it up and troubleshoot instead of asking the developer. Finally I caved (manhood bruised) and he got back to me within minutes. We exchanged some nice notes and got the issue solved.
As mentioned on the site, there is a crash bug which has been fixed but needs to go through the Apple process, but they are still digesting their turkeys and have some backlog.
Again good app, GREAT support. Look forward to more features even though I have no clue what they could be.
With my hiccups usually a four star BUT with the superb tech support, no question a FIVE. If the developer helps within minutes and makes the application work while Apple checks his fix, what more do you want.?Show lessPhillyman23
Feature RErequest
Program does what it states. Developer responds to emails. Why 3 stars? 1 major feature still missing. The ability to sign a users key. The PGP Web of Trust is what makes PGP one of the defacto public key technologies used.
I went through the emailing process in PGP, received a plaintext unsigned message from the developer saying he's been thinking about it almost instantly. What? The guy writing a PGP application didn't use it to respond.. Zimmerman would not approve ;) if you were already thinking about it prior to my reach out a month ago, why am I still waiting to recommend your application to the public? Still awaiting a way to get keys signed through the app.Show lessShawnCampbellDotOrg
