GNU Privacy Guard

GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a <a href="/facts/Free-software/IaoVtJXn">free-software</a> replacement for <a href="/facts/Symantec_Corporation/uWvBqako">Symantec</a>'s <a href="/facts/Cryptography/e94PEVau">cryptographic</a> software suite <a href="/facts/Pretty_Good_Privacy/4BELG9BW">PGP</a>. The software is compliant with the now obsoleted <a href="/facts/RFC_(identifier)/esftTvE7">RFC</a> <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4880">4880</a>, the <a href="/facts/Internet_Engineering_Task_Force/tIcCsFhX">IETF</a> standards-track specification of <a href="/facts/OpenPGP/4BELG9BW">OpenPGP</a>. Modern versions of PGP are <a href="/facts/Interoperability/7WgqUbXU">interoperable</a> with GnuPG and other OpenPGP v4-compliant systems. 
November 2023 saw two drafts aiming to update the 2007 OpenPGP v4 specification (RFC4880), ultimately resulting in the <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9580/">RFC 9580</a> standard in July 2024. The proposal from the GnuPG developers, which is called LibrePGP, was not taken up by the OpenPGP Working Group and future versions of GnuPG will not support the current version of OpenPGP. 
GnuPG is part of the <a href="/facts/GNU_Project/mjc8AwM6">GNU Project</a> and received major funding from the <a href="/facts/Politics_of_Germany/bANdw0dv">German government</a> in 1999.

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GNU Privacy Guard