PGP Encryption Explained

DISCLAIMER: Researchers have recently discovered a major vulnerability with PGP encryption. We recommend that you stop relying on PGP for encrypted communications and switch to a different secure communications method for now.

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PGP stands for Pretty Good Privacy. It’s an encryption standard that is used worldwide to encrypt email communications. In this tutorial we will see how PGP works before looking at simple ways to use it on a daily email exchange.

[RosMyster]

fINALY I UNDERSTOOD ALL OF THESE. THIS VIDEO IS GREAT, THANKS

[denisebarnum]

great finally a video that makes sense for someone that knows nothing about pgps

[sharonmaclennan]

Superior explanation of an age old problem of remote coded communications or if you wish to change that code or even have unknown parties wishing to communicate in that code to you or back to them. Phil Zimmerman figured this out based on Whitfield Diffie's idea of Dual "Keys" in 1966..

[ytubeanon]

finally, the padlock analogy and illustrations are the kind of thing I was looking to find to understand things... I guess the only questions left have to do with how PGP generates keys (entropy?), how secure is that process and whether a private key can be used to derive its matching public key or vice versa

[kontah]

Thank you very much for this clear explanation, it has really helped me!

[stevenziegler]

are you able to tell if a person has read an email using PGP, if so how?

[ful]

The PGP protocol itself has no flaw, it's some of the implementations that had vulnerabilities.

[takyc]

5:06 can anyone help me? how does that help as someone could just waste someones time by copying that public key and claiming to be me? i know that any messages sent to them can't be decoded but it could still mislead people to falsely identifying me

[davem]

I'm still too stupid to understand how this shit works

[earthscience]

well where is "PGP - Email Encryption Part 2" ?