PGP

<p>GNU Privacy Guard Equivalent and compatible with PGP</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To enable secure communication with others</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To protect the private key</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To encrypt the plaintext with a random key K</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To encrypt the symmetric key K</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To verify the authenticity of the message</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To authenticate time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>PGP was revolutionary when it was introduced but lacks modern trends in crypto protocols</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>GNU General Public License</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>confidentiality (encryption) and authentication (digital signatures)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Phil Zimmerman in the early nineties</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>some free versions may still be available, but mainly replaced by GnuPG</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Symantec (previously from PGP Corporation, Network Associates/McAfee)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>a specification (standard) for cryptographic applications developed by IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force, <a href="http://www.ietf.org">www.ietf.org</a> ) as RFC 4880 (previously RFC-2440)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>GnuPG is the GNU Privacy Guard equivalent and compatible with PGP</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the public key and information about the owner, as well as signatures of the key owner and of other users</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to protect the private key</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to decrease redundancy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>for authenticating time</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>e.g. Signal (also used by WhatsApp)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Free software under GNU General Public Licence</p> Signup and view all the answers