Page "Pretty Good Privacy" Paragraph 13

To the best of publicly available information, there is no known method which will allow a person or group to break PGP encryption by cryptographic or computational means.

Indeed, in 1996, cryptographer Bruce Schneier characterized an early version as being " the closest you're likely to get to military-grade encryption.

" Early versions of PGP have been found to have theoretical vulnerabilities and so current versions are recommended.

In addition to protecting data in transit over a network, PGP encryption can also be used to protect data in long-term data storage such as disk files.

These long-term storage options are also known as data at rest, i. e. data stored, not in transit.