The concept of a encrypted phone has long been an interest of Silent Circle founder and PGP creator, Phil Zimmerman.
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The Blackphone is a smartphone developed by the makers of Geeksphone, Silent Circle and PGP that will provide encryption for phone calls, emails, texts, and internet browsing.
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, in 1993, the company changed its name to PGP-RTS, which is the music production branch of the Radio Television of Serbia.
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Encryption is supported for files "at rest" using PGP, as well as for passwords using an MD5 or SHA, SHA512, MD4 non-reversible hash.
The Crypto Contacts list is based on a trust model similar to the Web of trust known from PGP.
It was designed to interoperate with PGP, the email encryption program initially designed and developed by Phil Zimmermann.
Today, PGP Virtual Disk is available as part of the PGP Desktop product family, running on Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and Mac OS X.
The very first version of PGP included an encryption algorithm, BassOmatic, developed by Zimmermann.
These include: Intel, Apple, AppNexus, StrataCom, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, 3Com Corporation, Mosaic, PGP, Itek, Digex, Media6Degrees, Smartling, Phoenix, Second Rotation (gazelle) and CTERA Networks.