| PGP (also called "Pretty Good
Privacy") is an encryption method that scrambles and unscrambles data. It was
developed originally by Phil Zimmermann who is now President of the recently created
corporation PGP, Inc. Phil Zimmermann and other programmers around the globe have
subsequently revised and improved PGP through numerous versions. PGP is an Asymmetric cryptosystems (public key cryptosystems)
because it uses one key (the public key) to encrypt a file (or message or text) and a
different key (the private key) to decrypt it.
PGP uses the RSA public-key encryption system. RSA was announced in 1977 by its inventors:
Ronald Rivest of MIT, Adi Shamir of the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and Leonard Adelman
of USC. It is called "RSA" after the initials of these gentlemen. PGP also
employs an encryption system called IDEA.
| Encrypt using PGP |
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| Decrypt a PGP File |
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| Generate New PGP Keys |
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| Import PGP Keys |
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