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| 28 | A completition of that explanation in simple words by dkg: |
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| 30 | {{{ |
| 31 | '''PGP''' is Pretty Good Privacy, which is a corporate trademark held by Symantec at the moment. |
| 32 | '''OpenPGP''' is the name of the standard that defines the techniques and data structures. |
| 33 | '''GPG''' is the GNU Privacy Guard, an implementation of using and interfacing with the defined techniques and data structures. |
| 34 | '''keys''' are mathematical constructs |
| 35 | '''identities''' are labels that humans can attach to real-world entities |
| 36 | }}} |