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Philip R. Zimmermann (born 1954) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. [2]
Phil Zimmermann created the first version of PGP encryption in 1991. The name, "Pretty Good Privacy" was inspired by the name of a grocery store, "Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery", featured in radio host Garrison Keillor's fictional town, Lake Wobegon.
Philip R. Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy, an email encryption software package. Originally designed as a human rights tool, PGP was published for free on the Internet in 1991.
OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard. It is defined by the OpenPGP Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a Proposed Standard in RFC 4880. OpenPGP was originally derived from the PGP software, created by Phil Zimmermann.
Jun 6, 2021 · PGP ignited the decade of the Crypto Wars, resulting in all the western democracies dropping their restrictions on the use of strong cryptography. It was a storied and thrilling decade, and a triumph of activism for the right to have a private conversation.
Aug 15, 2016 · It is based on the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) freeware software as originally developed in 1991 by Phil Zimmermann. For that, he was the target of a three-year criminal investigation, because the US government held that US export restrictions for cryptographic software were violated when PGP spread all around the world following its publication ...
Jun 8, 2021 · The original developer of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) reflects on the history, challenges and achievements of the cryptography software he created. He also warns of the threats to end-to-end encryption from governments and calls for activism.
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