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I am not so concerned about the application being cracked, but am asking more from a trust perspective. Is it a sensible and reasonable security practice to entrust a companys sensitive data to a program that is developed by a loosely associated group of programmers instead of a traditional company that can be held accountable for its work?<br />
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I realize this is more of an opinion question than purely technical, but Id really appreciate your feedback on this issue.<br />

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I am not so concerned about the application being cracked, but am asking more from a trust perspective. Is it a sensible and reasonable security practice to entrust a companys sensitive data to a program that is developed by a loosely associated group of programmers instead of a traditional company that can be held accountable for its work?

I realize this is more of an opinion question than purely technical, but Id really appreciate your feedback on this issue.


Is GPG4Win a suitable tool to use for company-confidential files?

Encryption is the process of encoding messages or information in such a way that only authorized parties can read it. In an encryption scheme, the intended communication information or message, referred to as plaintext, is encrypted using an encryption algorithm, generating ciphertext that can only be read if decrypted. For technical reasons, an encryption scheme usually uses a pseudo-random encryption key generated by an algorithm. An authorized recipient can easily decrypt the message with the key provided by the originator to recipients, but not to unauthorized interceptors.