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How Useful is PGP Encryption?

How Useful is PGP Encryption

With threats lurking in every corner, security software is more prevalent than ever before. While virus protection and spam filtering is essential, these programs are worthless at actually keeping prying eyes off your personal information. If privacy is something you are considered about, you need a powerful encryption product like PGP.

Pretty Good Privacy or PGP, has been playing a key role in data security since the early 90s. Although there are some versions that provide full-disk encryption, PGP is mainly a solution that encrypts messages for traveling over the insecure email system. So does it really offer adequate protection? To the best of public knowledge, there is no method known to penetrate files protected with PGP encryption. Bruce Schneier, a well known cryptographer, states that PGP is the closest you can get to military-grade encryption.
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