What Does the Future Hold for PGP?

Source: PC World

Bad things do happen to good code. So learned Phil Zimmermann, author of Pretty Good Privacy, which in the early 1990s became the de facto standard for cryptology development on the Internet, according to analysts and user groups. While working with human rights advocates in 1991, Zimmermann released his powerful encryption, signing, and authentication freeware, which did away with the need for third-party key authorities to issue and manage the keys that lock and unlock data.
In fact, the mathematical encryption algorithm was so good that Zimmermann nearly went to jail after one of his associates posted the algorithm's source code on the Web and it caught the attention of the U.S. Customs Service.