6816. Who created Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)?

A. Phil Zimmermann
B. Tim Berners-Lee
C. Marc Andreessen
D. Ken Thompson
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Phil Zimmermann created the first version of PGP encryption in 1991. Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) is a data encryption and decryption computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication for data communication. PGP is often used for signing, encrypting and decrypting texts, E-mails, files, directories and whole disk partitions to increase the security of e-mail communications.

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