Endpoint Encryption

Hello,

I am new to this forum and to PGP.  Currently we have one PC running PGP 8.1 that an employee who is leaving uses to email and ftp encrypted docs to 20 plus assocations.  My questions are: 1. Can there be multiple valid encryption keys for the same transmission from different people for each each business?  2.  Can keys created on an XP box with PGP 8.1 be imported to another Windows 7 box running a newer version of PGP (like 9 or 10)? 3.  Can encrytpion made with a newer version of PGP be unencrypted with an older version?

Ideally trying to create new keys for temp employee, new keys for whoever gets the position fulll time and keys for a back up if primary employee is out that day on an XP box and Windows 7 64 bit box.

Thanks! 

1) I'm not sure what you mean by this question.  Each person/business you encrypt to provides their own key for the encryption to them.  Any number of people can have each of these keys are their keyring and encrypt to any or all of them.

2) Yes.  The easiest way is to copy the keyrings from the PGP 8 installation to a USB thumb drive and have it inserted to the machine you are then going to install PGP on.  During the installation, PGP will ask if you have existing keyrings you want to use, and will then offer to copy them to the default location.  The other option is to export all the desired keys from the PGP 8 installation, then import them to the new PGP installation.  But then, you will need to go to each imported private key, right click on it, and set Trust to Implicit.

3) Yes.

THANK YOU!!  You answered my questions even if number one was not very clear.

You are very welcome.  I was hoping my reply was what you were looking for.