Pretty Good Privacy

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program which provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. PGP was originally designed and developed by Phil Zimmermann in 1991.

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Computer program - Cryptographic - Privacy - Authentication - Phil Zimmermann - 1991

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PGP has been sufficiently influential that its algorithms and data formats have been standardised for interoperability between different pieces of software. Eventually, the PGP design was made an Internet standards-track specification known as OpenPGP. OpenPGP is now an open standard used by PGP, GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG), Hushmail, Veridis, Authora, and others.

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Internet standards-track - Open standard - GNU Privacy Guard - Hushmail - Veridis - Authora

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