Phil Zimmermann
Philip R. Zimmermann ( born February 12, 1954 in Camden, New Jersey) is the inventor of e -mail encryption software Pretty Good Privacy ( PGP). He has a BS degree for computer science at Florida Atlantic University.
He was the first, (also called public-key cryptography) of the asymmetric cryptography made readily available as software to the general public. This meant that the U.S. customs authorities made him the target of a three-year investigation, because the government was of the view that U.S. export restrictions for cryptographic software were violated when PGP from 1991 after publishing it as freeware on the Internet to conquer took around the world. After the government dropped without charge in early 1996 the case, Zimmermann founded PGP Inc., which was acquired in December 1997 by Network Associates Inc. ( NAI), which were taken over by the listed Symantec Corporation turn 2010. Zimmerman remained after the sale for three years as a Senior Fellow at NAI. In 2002, the NAI PGP was bought by a new company called PGP Corporation, where Zimmermann now works as a special consultant. Zimmermann is also a "Fellow" of the Stanford Law School 's Center for Internet and Society.
In March 2006, he introduced the beta version of a new developed software called before Zfone to encrypt VoIP calls.
Quotes
- If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy. ( dt: If privacy is lawless, only outlaws privacy. )
- Privacy is a right like any other. You have to exercise it or risk losing it. ( dt: . privacy is a right like any other One must avail or you risk losing it. )