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Phil Zimmermann is an American computer scientist and cryptographer best known for creating Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world. He is also the founder of the PGP Corporation, which was acquired by Symantec in 2010. Zimmermann was born in Camden, New Jersey, and grew up in Miami, Florida. He attended the University of Miami, where he studied computer science and mathematics. After graduating in 1976, he worked as a software engineer for various companies, including the MITRE Corporation and Lotus Development Corporation. In 1991, Zimmermann released the first version of PGP, which quickly became the de facto standard for email encryption. He was the subject of a two-year criminal investigation by the U.S. government for allegedly violating export control laws, but the case was eventually dropped. In 2010, Zimmermann founded the PGP Corporation, which was acquired by Symantec in 2010. He is currently the Chief Cryptographer at Silent Circle, a secure communications company. Zimmermann has received numerous awards for his work, including the EFF Pioneer Award, the Norbert Wiener Award, and the RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics.

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Occupation Professor
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 12 February 1954
Birthday 12 February
Birthplace Camden, New Jersey, U.S.
Nationality United States

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2013

In October 2013, Zimmermann, along with other key employees from Silent Circle, teamed up with Lavabit founder Ladar Levison to create the Dark Mail Alliance. The goal of the organization is to work on a new protocol to replace PGP that will encrypt email metadata, among other things that PGP is not capable of.

In 2013, an article on Zimmermann's Law quoted Phil Zimmermann as saying The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier, and the ability of computers to track us doubles every eighteen months, in reference to Moore's law.

2012

Along with Mike Janke and Jon Callas, in 2012 he co-founded Silent Circle, a secure hardware and subscription based software security company.

1996

After the government dropped its case without indictment in early 1996, Zimmermann founded PGP Inc. and released an updated version of PGP and some additional related products. That company was acquired by Network Associates (NAI) in December 1997, and Zimmermann stayed on for three years as a Senior Fellow. NAI decided to drop the product line and in 2002, PGP was acquired from NAI by a new company called PGP Corporation. Zimmermann served as a special advisor and consultant to that firm until Symantec acquired PGP Corporation in 2010. Zimmermann is also a fellow at the Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. He was a principal designer of the cryptographic key agreement protocol (the "association model") for the Wireless USB standard.

1995

In 1995, he published a book "PGP Source Code and Internals", as a way to bypass limitation of exporting digital code. The book contains source code to a software package called PGP

1991

In 1991, he wrote the popular Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) program, and made it available (together with its source code) through public FTP for download, the first widely available program implementing public-key cryptography. Shortly thereafter, it became available overseas via the Internet, though Zimmermann has said he had no part in its distribution outside the United States.

1978

He was born in Camden, New Jersey. Zimmermann received a B.S. degree in computer science from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida in 1978. In the 1980s, Zimmermann worked in Boulder, Colorado as a software engineer and was a part of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign as a military policy analyst.

1954

Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann (born 1954) is an American computer scientist and cryptographer. He 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. Zimmermann is co-founder and Chief Scientist of the global encrypted communications firm Silent Circle.