PGP Marks 30th Anniversary
It was on this day in 1991 that Pretty Good Privacy was uploaded to the Internet [... then...] a number of volunteer engineers came forward and we made many improvements. In September 1992 we released PGP 2.0 in ten foreign languagesFun fact: "We made many improvements" is doing an interesting lift in this paragraph, since PGP 1.0 shipped with a cipher of Zimmerman's own design, Bass-O-Matic, which lived up to its name in part by being demolished by Eli Biham over a lunch. PGP 2.0 introduced IDEA, and, I believe, the first (for the era) cryptographically credible version of PGP; a more fitting anniversary to celebrate, perhaps.(We've learned quite about about how to engineer cryptography in the ensuing 29 years, and PGP hasn't kept up --- can't, really; so on the 30th anniversary of Bass-Free PGP, we might fittingly celebrate by finally giving PGP a well-earned retirement.)