Zimmerman Joins UK Think Tank
News Zimmerman is known for his opposition to increased surveillance, and his work on cryptography has seen him hailed by some organisations as a civil-rights champion. In a statement, the FIPR said Zimmerman will bring "invaluable experience and...
[September 16, 2002, 10:31]
Network Associates Buys PGP
News 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 the wrath of the U.S. The criminal case against Zimmerman was dropped one year ago...
[December 2, 1997, 10:48]
Free Software's White Knight
News Moglen explains that while "trawling a bulletin board" in the early 1990s he came across Pretty Good Privacy, the email encryption program written by Phil Zimmerman. The US government accused Zimmerman of violating US regulations by publishing the...
[March 15, 2006, 12:20]
Encryption Pioneer Expands On VoIP Plans
News More details have emerged on Pretty Good Privacy's (PGP) creator Phil Zimmerman's effort to provide a secure way to make phone calls over the Internet. Phone calls made over the Internet aren't as safe as calls made on old-fashioned phone networks...
[July 29, 2005, 9:00]
Moore's Law 'is Biggest Threat To Privacy'
News Today, Zimmerman sees surveillance as the biggest threat to civil liberties and nowhere, he believes, is this more egregious than in the UK. Moore's Law is the biggest threat to privacy today, according to Phil Zimmermann, the man who in the early...
[April 29, 2003, 11:12]
PGP Pioneer Pushes VoIP Encryption
News Phil Zimmermann gave free email encryption to the world more than a decade ago in the form of software called Pretty Good Privacy. Now Zimmermann, who became an instant Internet hero in part because of a threat of federal prosecution for much of...
[August 15, 2006, 16:25]
PGP Creator Launches Voice Encryption For Windows
News Phil Zimmermann, the creator of email encryption software Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), has released Zfone, a VoIP encryption program for Windows. Zfone, which is still in beta, was made available earlier this year to Mac and Linux users.
[May 23, 2006, 13:15]
Network Associates Drops PGP Email Encryption
News The company began selling PGP, or Pretty Good Privacy, to corporations in 1997 after it bought the software business from the technology's author, Phil Zimmerman. Software company Network Associates has stopped marketing its PGP e-mail encryption...
[March 11, 2002, 9:12]
Tackling VoIP Security Concerns
News Phil Zimmerman, creator of PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), recently released the beta of a secure, encrypted, open source VoIP software program called Zfone. But sending your voice calls over today's attack-prone, virus- and worm-infested Internet...
[September 27, 2006, 15:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Fifty people lived, worked and prepared in the USA for years in support of the atrocity: that they were not stopped is hardly the fault of Phil Zimmerman's PGP. Of course, it would do no such thing. A piece of paper with twenty handwritten user...
[September 17, 2001, 14:39]
PGP Inventor Downplays Encryption Flaw
News That makes the attack largely irrelevant, Zimmerman said. A flaw found by two Czech researchers in the popular OpenPGP digital signature standard is real but relatively minor, Phil Zimmermann, chairman of the open source group, said on Wednesday.
[March 22, 2001, 9:58]
PGP Creator Zimmerman Joins Hush
News One of the founding fathers of modern cryptography, Phil Zimmermann -- who created PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) and thus introduced a generation of computer users to email encryption -- has left the security firm Network Associates to join Irish...
[February 20, 2001, 10:30]
