Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

What is PGP?

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a technique for encrypting and authenticating data, like, for example, the content of e-mails. The original PGP software was developed by Phil Zimmermann, you can find recent versions for many operating systems on the PGPi homepage. However, due to various legal problems with the original software, a free replacement called GnuPG was written, which I prefer over PGPi. GnuPG supports various operating systems. If you want to try it on Microsoft® Windows®, I'd take a look at Gpg4win or the GnuPG-Pack Basics. These projects provide bundels of easy to use, graphical GnuPG frontends. If you're a Thunderbird user, try Enigmail. For further information, see the Non-Technical PGP FAQ (or the german translation done by Lutz Donnerhacke).

Get my PGP Key

You can fetch my public PGP key (1024D/B8B5D3DE) either from one of the standard keyservers (such as wwwkeys.de.pgp.net), on UNIX® or Linux® via finger holger@weiss.in-berlin.de, or directly from here.

Get my S/MIME Certificate

If you happen to prefer S/MIME over PGP, you can fetch my certificate from an external web site.

Last modified: $Date: 2009/07/07 12:10:10 $ by Holger Weiß