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Henk van Cann edited this page Sep 21, 2023 · 3 revisions

Definition

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.
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So also the often confusing GPG term.

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