Philip Zimmermann

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Philip Zimmermann (born the February 12th 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the software of Chiffrement of Email more used in the world.

It was the first to place at the disposal of the public a software of coding easily usable founded on the technique of the asymmetrical key (or public key). That was worth to him a three years criminal investigation on behalf of the American Customs. The government reproached him for having violated the restrictions on the export of software of cryptography by diffusing PGP in the whole world (PGP had been published in 1991 on the Fabric like free software).

After the classification without continuation of the procedure by the government at the beginning of 1996, Zimmermann founded PGP Inc. This company was bought by Network Associates (NAI) in December 1997. There remained there three years as a senior fellow . In 2002, PGP was repurchased with NAI by a new business called PGP Corporation, in which Zimmermann currently exerts the function of special adviser and consultant. Zimmermann is also associated Stanford Law School' S Center for Internet and Society .

Zimmermann received many technical and humane distinctions for his work innovating in the field of cryptography.

In 2006, it created Zfone, a software of coding of communication of internet telephony to the open standard SIP, functioning in P2P.

Quotation

“Yew privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will cuts privacy” , that is to say, in French: “If the intimacy is put out the law, only the outlaws will have an intimacy. ”

External bonds

Why I wrote PGP by Philip Zimmermann
I developed PGP and I do not regret it by Philip Zimmermann

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