Pretty Good Privacy
Computer program for data encryption, primarily in email (PGP) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991.[4]
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Quick Facts Original author(s), Developer(s) ...
Original author(s) |
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Developer(s) | Broadcom Inc. |
Initial release | 1991; 33 years ago (1991) |
Stable release | |
Written in | C |
Operating system | macOS, Windows[3] |
Standard(s) | |
Type | Encryption software |
License | Commercial proprietary software |
Website | www |
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PGP and similar software follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880), an open standard for encrypting and decrypting data. Modern versions of PGP are interoperable with GnuPG and other OpenPGP-compliant systems.[5]