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Pretty Good Privacy
Sign in to saveAlso known as PGP, Symantec Encryption Desktop, Symantec Encryption Server, Symantec Encryption Management Server, PGP Desktop, PGP Universal Server, Symantec Endpoint Encryption, Symantec Encryption
computer program for data encryption, primarily in email (PGP)
Key facts
- Original authors
- Phil Zimmermann PGP Inc. Network Associates PGP Corp.
- Developer
- Broadcom Inc.
- Initial release
- 1991 ; 35 years ago ( 1991 )
- Stable release
- 11.4.0 Maintenance Pack 2 / May 23, 2023 ; 3 years ago ( 2023-05-23 )
- Written in
- C
- Operating system
- macOS , Windows
- Standards
- OpenPGP: RFC 4880 , 5581 , 6637 , 9580 PGP/MIME: RFC 2015 , 3156
- Type
- Encryption software
- License
- Commercial proprietary software
- Website
- www .broadcom .com /products /advanced-threat-protection /encryption
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Wikidata facts
- Award
- EFF Award
- Owned by
- PGP Corporation
- Creator
- Phil Zimmermann
- Developer
- Broadcom
- Official website
- www.broadcom.com/products/advanced-threat-protection/encryption
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- software version identifier
- 2.6
- different from
- OpenPGP
- operating system
- cross-platform
- Stack Exchange tag
- stackoverflow.com/tags/pgp
- standards body
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- implementation of
- OpenPGP
- programmed in
- C
- publication date
- 1991-00-00
- P13411
- aluminium
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Encyclopedic overview
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Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991.
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