History
GnuPG was initially developed by Werner Koch. Version 1.0.0 was released on September 7, 1999. The German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology funded the documentation and the port to Microsoft Windows in 2000.
Because GnuPG is an OpenPGP standard compliant system, the history of OpenPGP is of importance. It was designed to interoperate with PGP, the email encryption program initially designed and developed by Phil Zimmermann.
Version 2.0 was released 13 November 2006. The older stable 1.x branch, whose latest version as of January 2012 is 1.4.12, will be continued in parallel with the new GnuPG 2 series because there were significant changes in the architecture of the program which will not fit every purpose.
Read more about this topic: GNU Privacy Guard
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