Open Source Tool of the Month: GnuPG!

LinuxSecurity.com: It's the new year! And to start it off right, LinuxSecurity.com wants to start things off with January's Open Source Tool of the month: GnuPG!

Encryption is one of the main pillars of security, and GnuPG is a robust and flexible tool with great functionality that is fully GPL Licensed. And since it just celebrated its landmark 10th Anniversary, it was an easy choice for our tool of the month.

Ten years is a long time in the open source community; a very long time. Lasting a decade, especially in these years of open source development, is nothing short of remarkable. And like all great open source projects, it came from humble beginnings - it was initiated as a way to encrypt data without relying on restricted patents (namely RSA and IDEA) by Werner Koch from Germany. Why?

Back in 1999 Richard Stallman was interested in pursuing a PGP replacement after existing patents had run out and had decided to turn to European developers...

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