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Card III-2: PHILIP ZIMMERMANN – If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

Series III · Card 2 of 21 · THE MAILING LIST

If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

PHILIP ZIMMERMANN · WHY I WROTE PGP · 1991

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Source

“Why I Wrote PGP”, June 1991 (updated 1999)

Open source · philzimmermann.com ↗

About the author

American cryptographer and creator of PGP, one of the most important tools in the history of public-key encryption.

The question on the back

What would you miss if privacy were outlawed?