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PGP does not compress messages. It encrypts them. PGP is used to ensure that confidential emails to do fall into the wrong hands, and that a message is in fact from the person you think it is.
• Developed by Phil Zimmerman in 1995.
• Documentation and source code is freely available.
• The package is independent of operating system and processor.
• PGP does not rely on the "establishment" and it's popularity and use have grown extensively since 1995.
• PGP combines the best available cryptographic algorithms to achieve secure e-mail communication.
• It is assumed that all users are using public key cryptography and have generated a private/public key pair.
• Either RSA (with RSA digital signatures) or El Gamel (with DSA) can be used.
• All users also use a symmetric key system such as triple DES or Rijndael.
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PGP does not compress messages. It encrypts them. PGP is used to ensure that confidential emails to do fall into the wrong hands, and that a message is in fact from the person you think it is.

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