The “Web of Trust” Principle or How PGP Works | HackerNoon
Your messengers, HTTPS protocol sites, authorization in Internet services, secure file storage, and sometimes even alarm clocks – all these things use PGP. But what is it anyway? Wikipedia gives the following definition: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is an encryption program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is used for signing, encrypting, and decrypting texts, e-mails, files, directories, and whole disk partitions and to increase the security of e-mail communications. Phil Zimmermann developed PGP in 1991. PGP and similar software follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880),
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September 22, 2024