What is PGP? Where can I get more info?

What is PGP?

PGP (“Pretty Good Privacy”) is a powerful, free crypto package. PGP lets people exchange files in a private, encrypted format, and also provides message authentication (to an extent).

For more information on PGP, see the Knowledge Base documents Where can I get PGP? and How to install PGP.

For discussion of PGP, see the newsgroup alt.security.pgp. A FAQ is also available for this newsgroup at:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/pgp-faq/

The Electronic Privacy Information Center is a good resource on privacy issues. Visit the EPIC Online Guide to Privacy Resources web site at:
http://www.epic.org/privacy/privacy_resources_faq.html

The PGP commercial product is available at:
http://www.pgp.com/

The open source equivalent of PGP, GnuPG, is available at:
http://www.gnupg.org/

For more information about GPG (GNU Privacy Guard), see the Indiana University UITS Unix Systems Support Group GPG document at:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/index0eb7.html?option=articles&task=viewarticle&artid=23&Itemid=3