Pretty Good Privacy

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting electronic mails (e-mails) to increase the security of e-mail communications. It was originally created by Phil Zimmermann in 1991.

PGP and other similar products follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data.

Further reading

• Garfinkel, Simson (1991-12-01). PGP: Pretty Good Privacy. O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN 1-56592-098-8.
• Zimmerman, Phil (June 1991). "Why I Wrote PGP" (1999 ed.). Retrieved 2008-03-03.

Other websites

OpenPGP implementations

• PGP Corporation Archived 2004-12-30 at the Wayback Machine
• GNU Privacy Guard
• cGeep Pro Archived 2008-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
• OpenPGP::SDK Archived 2012-12-25 at Archive.today
• Authora Inc.
• McAfee Inc.
• Feneris Solutions Inc. Canada
• EasyByte Cryptocx - Component
• Veridis Archived 2004-12-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Legion of The Bouncy Castle
• BSD Privacy Guard Archived 2006-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Prime Factors Inc. Archived 2009-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Oxford Brookes Secure Email Proxy Archived 2009-02-21 at the Wayback Machine

Support

• PGP Corporation Support Forum Archived 2008-10-19 at the Wayback Machine community support plus contributions from PGP Support staff
• Phil Zimmermann's Home Page
• MIT Public Key Directory for Registration and Search
• List of public keyservers
• IETF OpenPGP working group
• OpenPGP Alliance