PGP creator Phil Zimmerman joins StartPage.com to develop ‘next-generation PGP’
PGP creator Phil Zimmerman is joining privacy-focused internet company StartPage.com, the firm announced on Tuesday. Zimmerman is best known as the creator of “Pretty Good Privacy” (PGP), an email encryption program first developed in 1991. At StartPage.com, Zimmerman’s main focus will be the development of a “next-generation PGP-encrypted email service.” At 27 years old — ancient in terms of consumer technology products — PGP has fallen into disuse even among the privacy crowd. Other tools like Signal, an encrypted chat application, are widely considered easier and more secure in almost all circumstances. Zimmerman himself stopped using PGP several years ago. “I decided to join Startpage.com because they are ideologically aligned on privacy issues. They really care. And they make products everyone can use,” Zimmermann said in a statement. “A few years back I stopped using PGP on Apple Mail because it was never compatible with current MacOS versions. Creating a web-based PGP-compatible […]
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