Welcome to The OpenPGP Alliance

OpenPGP is the most widely used email encryption standard in the world. It is defined by the OpenPGP Working Group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Proposed Standard RFC 2440. The OpenPGP standard was originally derived from PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), first created by Phil Zimmermann in 1991.

The OpenPGP Alliance is a growing group of companies and other organizations that are implementers of the OpenPGP Proposed Standard. The Alliance works to facilitate technical interoperability and marketing synergy between OpenPGP implementations.

• A note from Phil Zimmermann: This web site hasn't been maintained for quite a while. I need someone to volunteer to maintain it, to add new member company pages, and to update it occasionally. Here's the problem: When PGP was languishing in the dungeons of Network Associates, we really needed the OpenPGP Alliance to provide a safe haven for other OpenPGP software alternatives to PGP. When PGP was rescued from NAI in 2003, there was dancing in the streets in the PGP user community. But there was a slight decline in the urgency of keeping the OpenPGP Alliance running at the same high level of activity. I never charged any membership fees for member companies in the OpenPGP Alliance, and without some source of revenue, it's hard to maintain the web site and keep adding new material for companies that want to be listed.

  A number of volunteers have contacted me to offer their services in maintaining this web site, but I haven't had time to organize a transition of responsibilities to a volunteer. I'm not looking for someone just to edit a few HTML source files. It's a lot more than maintaining a web site. In fact, web development skills are of little importance. It's more like the skills of a business development manager. You would have to take on a massive amount of work at first to handle the backlog of contacts that have accumulated, interview them all by phone, keep track of them all through many days of phone tag, apply expert judgement as to the relevancy of their products, and help them organize their material to integrate on the web site, not lose track of the contacts and follow through with unsupervised reliability, and quit your regular job for a couple of weeks to get all this done. It also means I must take a week off my new exciting current project to get you up to speed. Sounds hard for both of us. And that is why it hasn't happened yet. Sorry, but it's going to have to wait a bit longer.