• Most Popular
• Blogs
• Subscribe
• Contact Staff

Why Firefox Doesn't Take Google Chrome Features Building the Next-Generation Web Experience Microsoft's Mega Datacenters Coming Online iPhone Jailbreak Out Amid Apple-EFF Tussle Palm Gains as Stocks Tumble iPhone 3GS: Overheating Fears, OS Update Nears DoJ to Oracle/Sun: Not So Fast, Pardners Some Palm Pre Purchasers PO'd Firefox 3.5 Set to Roll Out Today Apple MacBook Sales Yo-Yo With the Economy

Xbox 360 tests = FAIL Rush to publication Skype Founder Shakes Money Tree For Seesmic SCO is BACK !?!?! ' Linux Next ' Begins To Take Shape Yahoo Moves Ahead With Layoffs Three Hours Of No Email: Priceless Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Patch Red Hat Accelerates JBoss Mozilla's New Look Firefox 3 Beta 3   [ More ]

Select a newsletter and click Join to sign up! Newslinx Daily Internet Daily InternetNews Business Report Boston News DC News NY News SiliconValley News InternetNews.com Podcast InternetNews.com Channel XML/RSS Feeds InternetNews.com IT Business News Developer News Ecommerce News Software IT News Hardware IT News Government News Search News Enterprise IT Planet News Networking News IT Security News Storage News Mobility News Web Content News Internet Stats Linux Today

Partner With Us

Pretty Good Privacy Last modified: Wednesday, May 19, 2004
(n.) Abbreviated as PGP, a technique developed by Philip Zimmerman for encrypting messages. PGP is one of the most common ways to protect messages on the Internet because it is effective, easy to use, and free. PGP is based on the public-key method, which uses two keys -- one is a public key that you disseminate to anyone from whom you want to receive a message. The other is a private key that you use to decrypt messages that you receive. To encrypt a message using PGP, you need the PGP encryption package, which is available for free from a number of sources. The official repository is at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PGP is such an effective encryption tool that the U.S. government actually brought a lawsuit against Zimmerman for putting it in the public domain and hence making it available to enemies of the U.S. After a public outcry, the U.S. lawsuit was dropped, but it is still illegal to use PGP in many other countries.		Related Categories Encryption Security Related Terms cryptography public-key encryption RSA Shop for: Books - Simson Garfinkel - Pgp: Pretty Good Privacy Products Release Date: December 01, 1994 Compare all matches: 3 Store Offers from $2-$31 Top Store Offers Amazon - 31.45 Amazon Marketplace - 5.96 Alibris - 1.99 more stores...
MIT distribution site for PGP This is MIT's distribution site for Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). You can obtain the latest copy of PGP here and also read about integrating it with mail programs. In addition, there are links to other keyservers, books, and related MIT links. PGP FAQs A list of different FAQs regarding PGP. PGP introduction This site explains how PGP software works through the use of a public and private key pairs. Yahoo!'s Pretty Good Privacy page Yahoo!'s directory of Pretty Good Privacy.