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PGP

Short for Pretty Good Privacy, PGP was freeware released in 1991 by Philip Zimmermann, PGP is a public-key authentication and encryption method based on the IDEA single-key and RSA public-key encryption algorithms. PGP is now a product of PGP Corporation and still widely used encryption tool.

Non-commercial United States citizens can also freely obtain PGP from various web sites. MIT has a great page containing PGP for various platforms, see the MIT distribution site for PGP for downloads.

Also see: Encryption, Security definitions

 

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