The Bottom Line
The G DATA GnuPG Plugin for Outlook adds easy to use email encryption to Outlook. Unfortunately, it lacks support for OpenPGP and lets escape unencrypted HTML parts with no warning.
Pros
- G DATA GnuPG for Outlook is easy to use
- Includes a tool for key management
Cons
- G DATA GnuPG for Outlook lacks OpenPGP support
- HTML part of HTML/plain text messages unencrypted
Description
- G DATA GnuPG is a plug-in for Outlook that adds PGP-compatible message encryption and signing.
- Lets you encrypt and sign outgoing emails comfortably via toolbar buttons.
- G DATA GnuPG for Outlook includes a key management tool.
- G DATA GnuPG for Outlook supports Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Outlook 2000/2.
Guide Review - G DATA GnuPG for Outlook 0.91
Outlook comes with an implementation of S/MIME, but it lacks PGP support.
The G DATA GnuPG Plugin tries to fill in this gap, but it succeeds only partially. The toolbar buttons it adds are clear and easy to use, and let you encrypt and sign outgoing emails as well as decrypt and verify incoming messages easily, and the key management tool G DATA GnuPG for Outlook comes with is crude, but provides the essential functionality.
Unfortunately, though, G DATA GnuPG for Outlook only supports the more and more outdated plain text format of PGP messages and can't deal with OpenPGP MIME-compatible messages. Worse even, it lets the HTML part of rich-text messages escape unencrypted without a warning.
