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Implementing email security with GPG
From the course: Learning Cryptography and Network Security
Implementing email security with GPG
- [Instructor] We know that there are options to secure email that include S/MIME and PGP. Let's take a closer look at PGP, and then we'll move on to GPG, which is a free version that you can install and use on your system. Now, Phil Zimmermann in 1991 released his first version of PGP after serious concerns about privacy issues. And during that time, the government was enacting laws that allowed for a backdoor to encryption technologies, so that monitoring can take place. Now, Pretty Good Privacy provides all the functions of an asymmetric encryption algorithm that includes key exchange, encryption, and digital signatures. So here's his webpage, and you should read a little bit more about this cause it's very interesting. And also, this is an archived page back in 1995 that talks a little bit more about PGP. Now, PGP was taken over by Symantec, and Symantec's products are available at Broadcom. Well, free version…
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