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Encryption pioneer expands on VoIP plans

More details have emerged on Pretty Good Privacy's (PGP) creator Phil Zimmerman's effort to provide a secure way to make phone calls... Read more

29 July, 2005 by Joris Evers

Zimmerman joins UK think tank

Phil Zimmerman, the creator of the first email encryption program to find mass... Read more

16 September, 2002 by Matt Loney

PGP pioneer pushes VoIP encryption

Phil Zimmerman has landed the first licensing deal for his Zfone product, which... Read more

15 August, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

PGP creator launches voice encryption for Windows

Phil Zimmerman's Zfone is now more widely available, but will it be... Read more

23 May, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Tackling VoIP security concerns

...vendors provide built-in encryption. There are also add-on encryption products. Phil Zimmerman, creator of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), recently released the beta of... Read more

27 September, 2006 by Deb Shinder

Free software's white knight

...he came across Pretty Good Privacy, the email encryption program written by Phil Zimmerman. Moglen was impressed with the software, but realised that Zimmerman was... Read more

15 March, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Network Associates drops PGP email encryption

...1997 after it bought the software business from the technology's author, Phil Zimmerman. The software, downloaded by millions of consumers worldwide and used for... Read more

11 March, 2002 by Stefanie Olsen

PGP is dead! Long live PGP? Maybe

...rendition of the PGP products tainted by their commercial association, especially after Phil Zimmerman, PGP's progenitor, left the company. But the products have remained... Read more

6 March, 2002 by Stephan Somogyi

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...the atrocity: that they were not stopped is hardly the fault of Phil Zimmerman's PGP. Yet I'll bet this will blamed as part... Read more

17 September, 2001

A secret everyone should know

...Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman created RSA encryption and how Phil Zimmerman's Pretty Good Privacy came to represent very good encryption for... Read more

19 March, 2001 by Michael J.Miller

Network Associates buys PGP

...started as a freeware product built in the basement of company founder Phil Zimmerman, who posted his original algorithm on Internet bulletin boards and incurred... Read more

2 December, 1997 by Jim Kerstetter

Pressure grows for UK data loss disclosure

...anything in place like SB 1386." And that feeling was echoed by Phil Zimmerman, the founder and writer of PGP encryption, who described SB 1386... Read more

16 March, 2007 by Will Sturgeon

Pretty Good Privacy pretty much dead

...business." The technology was created in the early 1990s by encryption guru Phil Zimmerman and was based on proprietary - and until then quite expensive - encryption... Read more

7 March, 2002 by Joey Gardiner

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

...the atrocity: that they were not stopped is hardly the fault of Phil Zimmerman's PGP. Yet I'll bet this will blamed as part... Read more

17 September, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

NAI founder opens up on PGP source code

Zimmerman says the timing was wrong... The creator of Network Associates (NAI) Phil Zimmerman said the release of PGP source code was long overdue. NAI... Read more

10 September, 2001 by Pia Heikkila

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