What is PGP?
Pretty Good Privacy, commonly referred to as PGP, is an encryption programme developed by Phil Zimmerman in 1991, originally to enable secure communication between anti-nuclear activists via bulletin board systems (BBSs).
What is OpenPGP?
OpenPGP is an open standard for signing and encryption.
It enables RSA or ECC signing/encryption operations using a private key stored on a smart card (e.g. YubiKeys) via common interfaces like PKCS#11.
What is GPG?
GPG, also known as GnuPG, is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard.
YubiKey follows the OpenPGP standard by using the GnuPG programme to encrypt and sign your data and communications.
PGP, OpenPGP and GPG
How do these three terms relate to each other?
PGP (1991)
PGP was created but then acquired shortly after. Because of this, many users were bound by licence issues that PGP Inc. encountered.
OpenPGP (1997)
OpenPGP was developed so that others could develop their own applications that would work with PGP.
It was an open standard designed to make the development of software with PGP easier (less bound by licence issues).
GPG (1997)
GNU Privacy Guard, also known as GPG, is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard first introduced in 1997.
When using the OpenPGP application found on YubiKeys in practice, GPG is most often the tool that will be used.
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