Phil Zimmermann

Quick Facts

Full Name	Phil Zimmermann
Occupation	Cryptographer
Date Of Birth	Feb 12, 1954(1954-02-12)
Age	70
Birthplace	Camden
Country	United States
Birth City	Camden
Horoscope	Aquarius

Phil Zimmermann Biography

Phil Zimmermann is one of the most popular and richest Cryptographer who was born on February 12, 1954 in Camden, Camden, United States. 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.

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.

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.

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 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

Phil Zimmermann Net Worth

Phil Zimmermann is one of the richest Cryptographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Phil Zimmermann 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

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.

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.

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

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Facts & Trivia

Phil Ranked on the list of most popular Cryptographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Phil Zimmermann celebrates birthday on February 12 of every year.

Top Facts about Phil Zimmermann

1. Phil Zimmermann created PGP in 1991.
2. PGP is an encryption software for secure communication.
3. Zimmermann was investigated by the US government for exporting PGP.
4. He received the EFF Pioneer Award in 1996.
5. Zimmermann co-founded Silent Circle, a secure communications company.
6. He is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame.
7. Zimmermann advocates for privacy and civil liberties online.
8. PGP has been used by activists, journalists, and whistleblowers worldwide.
9. The OpenPGP standard is based on PGP technology.
10. Zimmermann continues to work on improving digital security and privacy tools.

What is invented by Phil Zimmermann?

Philip Zimmermann is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), an email encryption program that was made available to the public via FTP download. Originally designed as a human rights tool, PGP became the most widely used email encryption software in the world.

What happened to Phil Zimmermann?

In 2018, Zimmermann was inducted into Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) hall of fame by the ISSA International Organization on October 16, 2018. In 2012, Zimmermann was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame by the Internet Society.

Why did Zimmermann make PGP free?

Zimmermann says that he released PGP because the US Senate’s 1991 omnibus crime bill had a measure buried within it that would have directed manufacturers of secure communications equipment to insert “trapdoors” into their products so that messages could be decrypted by the government.

Who wrote PGP?

Phil Zimmermann created the first version of PGP encryption in 1991.

Who invented PGP encryption?

That’s the belief of Phil Zimmermann – the creator of email encryption software Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), and now president and co-founder of secure communications company Silent Circle – initially expressed in a blog post, and expanded on in an interview with the Guardian.