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Revision as of 04:34, 27 May 2016
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication.
Description
PGP is often used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications.
It was created by Phil Zimmermann in 1991.
PGP and similar software follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data.
See also
- Bernstein v. United States
- E-mail encryption
- E-mail privacy
- Electronic envelope
- Encryption
- GNU Privacy Guard
- GPGTools
- Key server (cryptographic)
- Netpgp
- PGP word list
- PGPDisk
- ProtonMail
- Public-key cryptography
- S/MIME
- Web of trust
- X.509
- ZRTP
External links
- Pretty Good Privacy @ Wikipedia
