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What (who) is Pretty Good Privacy - definition

COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DATA ENCRYPTION, PRIMARILY IN EMAIL (PGP)
PrettyGoodPrivacy; OpenPGP; Pretty Good protection; Openpgp; Pgp encryption; PGP encryption; PGP Encryption; PGPi; Pretty good privacy; PGP Desktop; PGP SIGNATURE; PGP key pair
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Pretty Good Privacy         
<tool, cryptography> (PGP) A high security RSA {public-key encryption} application for MS-DOS, Unix, VAX/VMS, and other computers. It was written by Philip R. Zimmermann <pkz@acm.org> of Phil's Pretty Good(tm) Software and later augmented by a cast of thousands, especially including Hal Finney, Branko Lankester, and Peter Gutmann. PGP was distributed as "guerrilla freeware". The authors don't mind if it is distributed widely, just don't ask Philip Zimmermann to send you a copy. PGP uses a {public-key encryption} algorithm claimed by US patent #4,405,829. The exclusive rights to this patent are held by a California company called Public Key Partners, and you may be infringing this patent if you use PGP in the USA. This is explained in the PGP User's Guide, Volume II. PGP allows people to exchange files or messages with privacy and authentication. Privacy and authentication are provided without managing the keys associated with conventional cryptographic software. No secure channels are needed to exchange keys between users, which makes PGP much easier to use. This is because PGP is based on {public-key cryptography}. PGP encrypts data using the {International Data Encryption Algorithm} with a random session key, and uses the RSA algorithm to encrypt the session key. In December 1994 Philip Zimmermann faced prosecution for "exporting" PGP out of the United States but in January 1996 the US Goverment dropped the case. A US law prohibits the export of encryption software out of the country. Zimmermann did not do this, but the US government hoped to establish the proposition that posting an encryption program on a BBS or on the Internet constitutes exporting it - in effect, stretching export control into domestic censorship. If the government had won it would have had a chilling effect on the free flow of information on the global network, as well as on everyone's privacy from government snooping. FAQ (ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mp/mpj/getpgp.asc). {UK FTP (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/packages/pgp/)}. {USA FTP (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp-form.html)}. http://pegasus.esprit.ec.org/people/arne/pgp.html. {Justice Dept. announcement (http://eff.org/pub/Alerts/usatty_pgp_011196.announce)}. ["Protect Your Privacy: A Guide for PGP Users", William Stallings, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-185596-4]. (1996-04-07)
Internet privacy         
  • US Republican senator [[Jeff Flake]] spearheaded an effort to pass legislation allowing ISPs and tech firms to sell private customer information, such as their browsing history, without consent.
PERSONAL PRIVACY CONCERNING THE STORING, REPURPOSING, PROVISION TO THIRD PARTIES, AND DISPLAYING OF INFORMATION PERTAINING TO ONESELF VIA INTERNET
Jason Fortuny Craigslist prank; Jason Fortuny prank; Internet Privacy; Online privacy; Privacy (internet); Electronic privacy; Internet privacy laws and regulations; Internet tracking; Internet privacy in Sweden; Web privacy; Privacy on the Internet; Browser privacy
Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via Internet. Internet privacy is a subset of data privacy.
Information privacy         
TOPIC REGARDING THE APPROPRIATE COLLECTION, USE AND DISSEMINATION OF PERSONAL DATA IN PRODUCTS AND SERVICES, AS WELL AS THEIR PROTECTION AND RELATED LEGAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
Data protection; Data Protection; Information Privacy; Private data; Data privacy; Informational privacy; Data protection policy
Information privacy is the relationship between the collection and dissemination of data, technology, the public expectation of privacy, contextual information norms, and the legal and political issues surrounding them. It is also known as data privacy or data protection.

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Pretty Good Privacy

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) 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.

PGP and similar software follow the OpenPGP, an open standard of PGP encryption software, standard (RFC 4880) for encrypting and decrypting data.

Examples of use of Pretty Good Privacy
1. In particular, e–mail programs such as Pretty Good Privacy have been considered too cumbersome by many.
2. Files are protected using PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, a virtually unbreakable form of encryption software that is also used by intelligence agencies around the world.
3. Authorities in the UK and the US eventually lost after Phil Zimmerman and a friend separately uploaded the source code for the encryption program Pretty Good Privacy to internet newsgroups in 1''1.
4. But the investigator could not get access to the drive Z content because it was protected by Pretty Good Privacy, a form of encryption software used by intelligence agencies in the United States and around the world that is widely available online.