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Symbian to Wrap Up IP in PGP

2 replies · 2,856 views · Started 07 December 2007

With a huge number of partners, licencees and developers around the world, Symbian announced a partnership with the PGP Encryption Platform to protect the contents of Symbian laptops, desktops and email exchanges around the world; specifically the IP of Symbian and their partners. After all, one lost laptop with details on a prototype device getting into the wild would not be a nice scenario for anyone involved. I 'm just wondering if there's a mobile client for Symbian staff's smartphoens, and if that will ever be available to the public?

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TomJ wrote:There was a PGP client for the Psion 5... whether that can be adapted I don't know.

No. Zenobyte's PGP (now discarded) doesn't work with s60 (however, I have used it more or less successfully with s80).

Nevertheless, I managed to run an old command line PGP version on an s60 machine (E90). See here.