[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Corey Edwards wrote:
whereas PGP sprung up from the
open source community to encrypt stuff, and was later added into email
as a nifty way to handle email encryption.

Erm, that's not the way I remember it.  PGP is commercial software
developed by Phil Zimmerman.  GPG came along much later.

Barry Roberts


You are right; I misrepresented that.

PGP was not "open source" although the source code was available to download and compile, use, etc (most projects back then didn't worry as much about legalities and licensing, etc). It later became a closed commercial product, which pushed the community to write GPG.

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