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Moore's law 'is biggest threat to privacy'

Moore's Law is the biggest threat to privacy today, according to Phil Zimmermann, the man who in the early 90s developed the Pretty Good... Read more

29 April, 2003 by Matt Loney

PGP creator: Surveillance must be curbed

Phil Zimmermann, creator of Pretty Good Privacy encryption -- better known as PGP -- was... Read more

23 January, 2002 by Alberto D'Ottavi and Gaetano D'Elia

PGP pioneer pushes VoIP encryption

Phil Zimmermann gave free email encryption to the world more than a decade... Read more

15 August, 2006 by Declan McCullagh

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Tuesday 15/8/2006 IUBHE PKJAW CBAYT NJQZE — or, in other words, Phil Zimmermann is at it again. The inventor of Pretty Good Privacy or... Read more

18 August, 2006

Open standards at Hush lure NAI encryption expert

Encryption expert Phil Zimmermann has defected from security vendor Network Associates (NAI) to join Irish... Read more

22 February, 2001 by Sally Watson

Coders to hold Bletchley fundraiser

...the conference on 7 November 2009. Speakers will include PGP encryption creator Phil Zimmermann; National Museum of Computing stalwart Tony Sale; and journalist and author... Read more

28 September, 2009
Creating a secure and reliable VoIP solution

Creating a secure and reliable VoIP solution

As a relatively new telecommunications technology, and one that is growing in popularity, it is important to be aware of measures which can increase VoIP's security and reliability Read more

10 August, 2007 by Deb Shinder

Black Hat gears up in Las Vegas

...obvious manipulation; Dan Kaminsky is presenting his annual Black Ops survey; and Phil Zimmermann is returning to talk once again about his vision of a... Read more

31 July, 2007 by Robert Vamosi

Interview: Open-source advocate Eben Moglen

...came across Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the email encryption program written by Phil Zimmermann. Moglen was impressed with the software, but also realised that Zimmermann... Read more

11 May, 2007 by Andrew Donoghue

Rupert Goodwins' Diary

Tuesday 15/8/2006 IUBHE PKJAW CBAYT NJQZE — or, in other words, Phil Zimmermann is at it again. The inventor of Pretty Good Privacy or... Read more

18 August, 2006 by Rupert Goodwins

PGP Corporation sees potential of deperimeterisation

...Dunkelberger. PGP Corporation owns the Pretty Good Privacy codebase -- originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a security system developed around cryptographic... Read more

9 June, 2006 by Tom Espiner

PGP creator launches voice encryption for Windows

Phil Zimmermann, the creator of email encryption software Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), has... Read more

23 May, 2006 by Ingrid Marson

Encryption pioneer enters VoIP arena

Phil Zimmermann hopes that his secure Net phone-calling efforts will be as... Read more

27 July, 2005 by Joris Evers

Face the facts on surveillance

In an interview with ZDNet UK earlier this week, Phil Zimmermann said that Moore's Law was one of the biggest threats... Read more

1 May, 2003 by Rupert Goodwins

Zimmerman joins UK think tank

One of the founding fathers of modern cryptography, Phil Zimmermann -- who created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and thus introduced a generation... Read more

16 September, 2002 by Matt Loney

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