As a result, PGP Corporation has earned a global reputation for innovative, standards-based, and trusted solutions.
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The bug affects versions 5.5.x to 6.5.3 of the domestic and international versions of the PGP software.
It will prevent any additional decryption keys from being added to any field in the PGP certificate.
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Users should be encouraged (and equipped) to encrypt any sensitive email using PGP or GNU Privacy Guard (see Resources).
They might point out that email-compatible systems like PGP provide a much better proof of identity than an IM handle.
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The website includes an e-mail address along with a PGP public key.
Upon close of the acquisitions, PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge will join the Enterprise Security Group led by Senior Vice President Francis deSouza.
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So Zimmerman designed this system called PGP and made it widely available.
That means big business for PGP, the leading provider of file-scrambling software.
More and more, the Bitcoin Project is starting to look like the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) secure email program with each passing day.
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Mr. DEVLIN: Based on the reports I've read about this case, Pellicano is using a system called PGP, which stands for Pretty Good Privacy.
Yesterday, Symantec was lagging in encryption and key management and today, with PGP and GuardianEdge, it is now able to provide leading solutions worldwide.
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Based on a unified key management and policy infrastructure, the PGP(R) Encryption Platform offers the broadest set of integrated applications for enterprise data security.
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So, the PGP source code was only available in a 43-volume, 65, 000-page set of books sold in a Palo Alto bookstore called Printer's Ink.
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Phil Zimmerman, inventor of PGP and spokesman for the company, said it had taken swift action to ensure that the loophole could not be exploited.
He said initially PGP was ensuring that its main server filtered out the bogus keys and other servers around the world would be updated soon.
The three-year-old flaw, not publicized until Thursday, lets an attacker decrypt PGP data but does not let the attacker impersonate the PGP certificate holder, Jones emphasizes.
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So a user simply has to chose a password and then the PGP system does all of the encryption and makes the file or the message secure.
In 1997 PGP was extended so that other keys could be added to the public key allowing more than one person to read the message it was protecting.
He has moved to embrace new gene-deciphering technology as one of the PGP-10 the first ten participants in the Personal Genome Project being run by Harvard Professor George Church.
PGP(R) platform-enabled applications allow organizations to meet current needs and expand as security requirements evolve for email, laptops, desktops, instant messaging, smartphones, network storage, file transfers, automated processes, and backups.
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PGP, an acronym for Pretty Good Privacy, was originally created as a free tool by Philip Zimmermann in the early nineties to allow for private email correspondences and bulletin-board service postings.
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The company was co-founded by Mike Janke, a former Navy SEAL, and Phil Zimmermann, the creator of Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP) and other Internet encryption for voice and data.
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For starters, the couple could have used stress-tested PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) for point-to-point encrypted email which involves installing a separate piece of client software and the exchanging of public keys.
Symantec also intends to integrate the PGP key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center, which simplifies security information management by providing customers consolidated access to threat, security and operational dashboards and reporting.
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And the PGP bug arises from the mistake that PGP originally made in not ensuring that all the additional decryption keys in the data-recovery field have to be signed to prevent the tampering.
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Many observers have suggested defensive techniques that deploy TrueCrypt disk encryption with hidden volume partitions or PGP Whole Disk Encryption rendering the entire computer unbootable thereby making even file time and date stamps unavailable.
Wilson compares his new legal troubles to the widely-followed case in the mid-1990s of Philip Zimmermann, the inventor of the cryptographic software PGP, who was threatened with indictment under ITAR for putting his military-grade encryption software online.
As it turns out, this flaw has actually existed since 1997, back when Phil Zimmermann, the original developer of PGP, added the data-recovery feature as he sought to commercialize the product for corporate use, Jones points out.
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