Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also known for his work in VoIP encryption protocols, notably ZRTP and Zfone. He was born in Camden, New Jersey. His father was a concrete mixer truck driver. He received a B.S. degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton in 1978. He was one of the first to make asymmetric, … Wikipedia
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The right to a private conversation was a natural right, not just in a philosophical sense, but in a law-of-physics sense, given the technology of the time. www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html
