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GNU Privacy Guard
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Not to be confused with Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).
GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free-software replacement for Symantec's cryptographic software suite PGP. The software is compliant with RFC 4880, the IETF standards-track specification of OpenPGP. Modern versions of PGP are interoperable with GnuPG and other OpenPGP-compliant systems.[3] GnuPG is however expected, as of April 2024, to break compliance with the upcoming revision of OpenPGP and thus with other implementations that will continue to comply.[4]
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Original author(s) | Werner Koch |
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Developer(s) | GNU Project |
Initial release | 7 September 1999; 24 years ago (1999-09-07) |
Stable release(s) | |
Repository | dev |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows, macOS, RISC OS, Android, Linux |
Type | OpenPGP |
License | 2007: GPL-3.0-or-later[lower-alpha 1] 1997: GPL-2.0-or-later[lower-alpha 2] |
Website | gnupg |
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GnuPG is part of the GNU Project and received major funding from the German government in 1999.[5]