Pretty Good Privacy
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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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.