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Subject: [ISN] PGP founder, Navy SEALs uncloak encrypted comms biz
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2012-06-15 10:45:11
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1206150544590.2879 () infosecnews ! org
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/14/pgp_seal_encrypted_communications/
By Iain Thomson in San Francisco
The Register
14th June 2012
Phil Zimmermann and some of the original PGP team have joined up with
former US Navy SEALs to build an encrypted communications platform that
should be proof against any surveillance.
The company, called Silent Circle, will launch later this year, when $20
a month will buy you encrypted email, text messages, phone calls, and
videoconferencing in a package that looks to be strong enough to have
the NSA seriously worried. Zimmermann says that surveillance by the
state and others has increased vastly over the last few years, and
privacy improvement are again needed.
"At the very least I want people, as part of their right in a free
society to be able to communicate securely," he said in a promotional
video (below). "I should be able to whisper in your ear, even if your
ear is a thousand miles away."
The Silent Circle package comes with downloadable applications for
smartphones and computers that allows secure communication with other
users. A member of the team told El Reg that the encryption architecture
was "very, very good," with some of the code coming as a result of seven
years of research by team members.
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