(Screenshots by Matt Hersch, 2011)
According to this Cnet article, 11 organizations joined the OpenPGP alliance, which allows different secure e-mail systems to work together. OpenPGP uses a public key which is only meant for a specific person to scramble a message. The reader uses a private key to unscramble the text. The encryption system has worked well except for when two Czech researchers found a flaw that could expose people's private keys, which has since been fixed. Even though 11 organizations joined the Open PGP alliance, Network Associates, the owner of the PGP trademark, decided to not join the alliance at the time of the alliance's launch. SSH, a secure-communications software company, e-mail software company Qualcomm, and private technology company Zero Knowledge Systems were included in the alliance. As a result of the alliance, PGP may receive a boost among computer users.
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