Pretty Good Privacy

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.

History

On April 29, 2010, Symantec Corp. announced that it would acquire PGP for $300 million with the intent of integrating it into its Enterprise Security Group.

The Symantec PGP platform has undergone a rename. PGP Desktop is now known as Symantec Encryption Desktop, and the PGP Universal Server is now known as Symantec Encryption Management Server.

The current shipping versions (May 2016) are Symantec Encryption Desktop 10.3.0 (Windows and Mac OS platforms) and Symantec Encryption Server 3.3.2.

See also

• Bernstein v. United States
• E-mail encryption
• E-mail privacy
• Electronic envelope
• Encryption
• GNU Privacy Guard
• GPGTools
• Key server (cryptographic)
• Netpgp
• OpenPGP
• PGP word list
• PGPDisk
• ProtonMail
• Public-key cryptography
• S/MIME
• Web of trust
• X.509
• ZRTP

External links

• Pretty Good Privacy @ Wikipedia