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GPG Takes Over
September 7th, 1999 Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG) 1.0.0 is released to the open source community
GPG complies with OpenPGP (rfc2440)
Behavior and command line essentially the same as PGP
Open Source and so multiple platforms are supported
Many Plug-in’s and front-ends have been contributed to the on-going project
Notes:
Arrives as commercialization of PGP starts to overshadow it’s original intent. Pre-Empts Zimmerman's Split with NAI