Does anyone still use PGP?
Yes - OpenPGP in particular via the Enigmail add-on in Thunderbird.
I recall that the government was trying to introduce a backdoor to the encription, did they ever succeed in doing that? I think I have an old copy of it somewhere. Can you still get it in a store?
PGP does offer a government back door. This is why I stopped using it.
Evidently the government didn't find the backdoor in this
case.
I met Phil Zimmerman, the guy who wrote it, at the 1996 LP national convention. The NSA may have cracked it but I doubt there's a back door.
I told him a joke from the Cellar written by vsp:
Q: They prevented laptops with PGP from leaving the country because it was classified as munitions. What does that make Windows?
A: A dead shell.
He didn't laugh, and I was devastated.
PGP Corporate edition offers a backdoor for corporations to get into anything encrypted by employees. It stands to reason, they'd do the same for the government.
http://lists.insecure.org/lists/politech/2001/Jan/0063.htmlRadar, a lot of people wouldn't use PGP Corporate, because it is, well, corporate.