So do defense contractors, oil companies, and other corporate giants. But ordinary people and grassroots political organizations mostly have not had access to affordable military grade public-key cryptographic technology. PGP empowers people to take their privacy into their own hands. There's a growing social need for it. That's why I wrote it.
Encryption is a means to achieve that privacy.
It was invented for that very purpose. But encryption, like most things, can be used for good or evil. And the debate over how to harness this powerful tool rages on as people on both sides see that there are no easy answers. . Encryption is the process of scrambling a message so that only the intended recipient can read it. A key is supplied to the recipient so that they can then decipher the message.