Whats PGP, OPENPGP, and GPG?
PGP, short for “Pretty Good Privacy”, is an encryption tool that used public and private key pairs to encrypt communications. Although it is very flexible in its applications, it is primarily used for email and file encryption. PGP was developed and released by Philip Zimmerman in 1991, and eventually founded PGP, Inc. In 1996 PGP, Inc. was acquired by Network Associates in 1997, who eventually ceased developing and supporting the product. Also in 1997, the OpenPGP Working Group was formed to develop an open Inernet encryption standard based upon PGP. Their Standard, released a year later, became the standard upon which GPG is based. GPG, short for “Gnu Privacy Guard”, is the latest incarnation of PGP, and is the most popular implementation of PGP among with Linux community. To learn more about PGP, its background, and its various permutations, see: A Newcomer’s Introduction to PGP: http://www.mindspring.
PGP, short for “Pretty Good Privacy”, is an encryption tool that used public and private key pairs to encrypt communications. Although it is very flexible in its applications, it is primarily used for email and file encryption. PGP was developed and released by Philip Zimmerman in 1991, and eventually founded PGP, Inc. In 1996 PGP, Inc. was acquired by Network Associates in 1997, who eventually ceased developing and supporting the product. Also in 1997, the OpenPGP Working Group was formed to develop an open Inernet encryption standard based upon PGP. Their Standard, released a year later, became the standard upon which GPG is based. GPG, short for “Gnu Privacy Guard”, is the latest incarnation of PGP, and is the most popular implementation of PGP among with Linux community.
