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Re:Facebook and PGP by CaptainZapp on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @04:37AM (#9651275)
Despite his German sounding name, I can assure you that Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, is very much an American.
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Re:Facebook and PGP by marktam264 on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @04:55AM (#9651320)
I think he meant GPG. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Koch
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Re:Facebook and PGP by excel2flow on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @04:58AM (#9651329)
Yes, thanks for correction.
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Re:Facebook and PGP by escap on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @05:10AM (#9651369)
He meant Werner Koch, the guy who is maintaining gnupg A few months ago, he asked again for donation, this time he got "good media exposure" and got funded. cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011138

Facebook pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project.

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Re:Facebook and PGP by CaptainZapp on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @07:54AM (#9651895)
Uuups, my bad.

Thanks for corrections.

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