PGP Encryption

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What is PGP Encryption


PGP Encryption (Pretty Good Privacy) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication.

PGP History -Early History

Phil Zimmermann created the first version of PGP encryption in 1991.

No license was required for non-commercial use.

PGP encryption found its way onto Usenet and from there onto the Internet, and it rapidly acquired a considerable following around the world.


PGP History - PGP 3

This new version was to have considerable security improvements, including a new certificate structure which fixed small security flaws in the PGP 2.x certificates as well as permitting a certificate to include separate keys for signing and encryption.


PGP History-Network Associates acquisition

In December, 1997 PGP Inc. was acquired by Network Associates, Inc. Zimmermann and the PGP team became NAI employees


PGP encryption- Security quality

To the best of publicly available information, there is no known method for any entity to break PGP encryption by cryptographic, computational means regardless of the version being employed