GPG -- included in most major Linuxes?

[randysparks]

I think I'm right in saying that GPG is included with most major linuxes, such as Fedora, SUSE, Gentoo and so on? Installed out of the box?

[kevdog]

I can only speak of Ubuntu in which gpg is installed. I'm not sure about gentoo. I believe it is contained in Fedora by default also.

[tubbygweilo]

randysparks,
GnuPrivacyGuardHowto as used by Ubuntu plus Gnupg and Pretty Good Privacy as seen in Wikipedia.

Gnupg works right out of the box with Ubnuntu and I make use of it via the Enigmail extension for Mozilla ThunderBird mail system, from what I can gather gnupg is open sourced hence it is included in the Ubuntu repositories. I think you may well be correct in assuming the the encryption function is included in most flavours of Linux right out of the box.

[jw5801]

Suse, yes. Fedora, yes. Gentoo, only if you want. Gentoo you pick all the way through the install process what you want to install for everything. But yes, GPG is normally the encryption of choice for most open source projects.

[Dr Small]

GPG is not installed on ArchLinux, as you have to install what you want. But I have it installed.

[stimpack]

Even on mac osx. Only our Windows buddies have to install it.

[randysparks]

Even on mac osx. Only our Windows buddies have to install it.

... because if Microsoft included it, they'd be called anti-competitive. Oh, the irony!

Thanks all -- these answers are what I was looking for.