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Phil Zimmermann and PGP: Strong Encryption for Ordinary Users

Phil Zimmermann's Pretty Good Privacy combined public-key encryption, signatures, symmetric ciphers, compression, and a decentralized web of trust into software ordinary computer users could distribute and run themselves.

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