The cryptography behind PGP is solid and failures emanating from its use stem from human error.
Accordingly, no one has managed to decrypt a PGP-encrypted message without the corresponding private key.
It’s been 30 years since PGP was first released as an open-sourced, non-licensed project, and in that time, no one has ever managed to “crack” or reverse-engineer the encryption. The output of the encryption process is then imported by the recipient, who uses their private key to decrypt the text. Public keys can be stored for easy reference in the client and the encryption can be done with just a few clicks. To send a PGP encrypted message, the sender encrypts the text they wish to send using the recipient’s public key using a PGP client like Kleopatra.
PGP is short for “pretty good privacy” and refers to an encryption program used for communication and data.
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We walk you through key pair generation, message encryption and message decryption in a step-by-step manner, giving you pointers on how to protect your privacy along the way. In this guide we explain everything you need to know about how to get started using PGP encryption.