Your first statement is correct, but the second is absolutely false.
PGP isn't any standard, it is a product of the PGP Corporation.
The PGP Corporation was founded by the origin inventor of PGP, Phil Zimmermann, as he and some people of his former staff bought back the PGP source code from McAfee. (Phil Zimmermann sold the PGP source code 1997 to the McAfee, Inc.)
The internet standard you mean is OpenPGP which was introduced 1998 as a free alternative to the now proprietary (McAfee) PGP.
The first implementation of OpenPGP was GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard), a free (GPL) alternative to the still proprietary GPG products.
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Your first statement is correct, but the second is absolutely false.PGP isn't any standard, it is a product of the PGP Corporation.
The PGP Corporation was founded by the origin inventor of PGP, Phil Zimmermann, as he and some people of his former staff bought back the PGP source code from McAfee. (Phil Zimmermann sold the PGP source code 1997 to the McAfee, Inc.)
The internet standard you mean is OpenPGP which was introduced 1998 as a free alternative to the now proprietary (McAfee) PGP.
The first implementation of OpenPGP was GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard), a free (GPL) alternative to the still proprietary GPG products.
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