Question

Use an Internet browser to research Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). Peruse at least two Web sites, and then answer the following questions: Who is Phil Zimmerman, and what is his relationship to PGP

Answer 1

Answered below.

Step-by-step explanation:

Phil Zimmerman is a software engineer who created Pretty Good Privacy in 1991. He was an anti-nuclear activist and he developed Pretty Good Privacy so that people of the same stance and ideology as him, are able to securely send messages and files over the internet.

Pretty Good Privacy, the name chosen by Zimmerman for his encryption software, was inspired by the name of a grocery store in the fictional town of a radio show.

Pretty Good Privacy is an encryption software that helps in the security of data by providing cryptographic privacy through generation of a public and private key for encryption and decryption respectively.

Phil Zimmerman was investigated by the United States government in February 1993 because Pretty Good Privacy had reached many countries around the world and that was against the United States laws. The investigation was eventually cancelled without criminal charges against him.