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Great news they have just released GPG4Win 4.0: https://www.gpg4win.org/
Here is some of what use to go on. A long time ago when they first came out with PGP you could only get it under special circumstances and even then you were not allowed to use the strongest encryption around, and it was illegal to allow anyone to download it if they were in certain countries. You had to be using a PC that was from the US when I was first introduced to it. You also had a fairly stern warning about letting it get into the hands of certain countries or anyone suspected of terrorism. Now we don’t see those kind of warnings as much going on and it is way more common to hear about and use PGP.
You might wonder why would anyone care about PGP well I will tell you, for one you can use it to verify emails you send and receive as being from the legitimate source through PGP verification of their PGP key. Scammers send fake emails all the time to try and fool people into giving them information or access they don’t have a right to. PGP stops that in an instant through verification.
The other important part is you might need to send information that you want kept private between you and the person you are sending the information to, with PGP encryption you can encrypt the message so that only the intended recipient can read the email.
With encryption you can also encrypt files that contain important information you wouldn’t want anyone to read, since it is encrypted it would have to be decrypted to be able to read.
Hope this helps everyone stay safe.