Cryptography Outside the Web
- Pretty Good Privacy
- What is PGP?
- PGP (also called "Pretty Good Privacy") is a computer program
that encrypts (scrambles) and decrypts (unscrambles) data. For
example, PGP can encrypt "Andre" so that it reads "457mRT&%$354."
Your computer can decrypt this garble back into "Andre" if you have
PGP.
- It was written by Phil Zimmerman (prz@acm.org) and the latest
freeware version (2.6.2) was released in 1994. You can also obtain
the source code and compile it for yourself.
- PGP is based on the RSA algorithm.
- PGP Incorporated.
- Founded by Phil Zimmerman.
- Current Product: PGP 5.0 (Commercial Product, NOT free)
- http://www.pgp.com/
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