#PhilZimmermann
2 entries tagged PhilZimmermann.
People (1)
- Phil Zimmermann Phil Zimmermann is the programmer and anti-nuclear activist who wrote Pretty Good Privacy and released it for free in 1991, became the target of a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong encryption as an exported munition, and went on to build the encrypted-voice tools Zfone and Silent Circle.
Concepts (1)
- Pretty Good Privacy Pretty Good Privacy is the email-encryption software Phil Zimmermann released for free in 1991, whose international spread triggered a three-year US criminal investigation that treated strong cryptography as a munition and that the cypherpunks made a central front of the crypto wars.