PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
PGP, cifrado de correo para ciudadanos
- Date
- 1991 · confidence high
- Place
- Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Credited to
- Phil Zimmermann
- People
- 👤 Phil Zimmermann1954–
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Free program that put military-grade public-key cryptography within reach of any email user. Its spread triggered a criminal investigation for arms export and the victory of the cypherpunk movement.
What it led to
- The crypto wars of the 1990s and the liberalisation of encryption
- The cypherpunk movement that gave rise to Bitcoin and Tor
- End-to-end encryption as a civil right
Built on
Made possible
- Tor onion routing2002
- Bitcoin and blockchain2008-2009
- end-to-end encryption