Today, PGP is “owned” by Symantec, but OpenPGP, an e-mail encryption standard, is implemented by multiple software. Zimmermann got into trouble with the US government in 1993 because PGP travelled international waters and reached a vast number of countries around the globe, violating US export restrictions for cryptographic software. He was an anti-nuclear activist, and wanted a way to transfer information securely over the Internet. What if somebody else sees the bank information I’m sending? Or even those dank memes that should not be spoken of?įortunately, there’s a pretty good solution to this problem: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).Ī software engineer named Phil Zimmermann created PGP back in 1991. Sending sensitive information through the internet is always nerve-racking. By Radu Raicea How Pretty Good Privacy works, and how you can use it for secure communication Image credit: Mr.
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