PGP founder, Navy SEALs uncloak encrypted comms biz

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

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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