> Good question I wonder bet they do.
Nope, ain't no "back doors" to PGP.
The PGP algorithms and software are all open-source and available to the entire world to examine. They've been public for 15+ years. If there was any hint of a backdoor, it would have been closed long ago.
That's the point of open-source, of course.
I use PGP daily. Of course one wants to use a strong key length (2048+ length), because the only mechanism for cracking the encryption is brute force, and long keys will keep that out of reach for decades of CPU advances.
Great stuff.
> The PGP algorithms and software are all open-source and available to the entire world to examine.
The software products incorporating the PGP algorithms, that are produced and sold by PGP Corporation (e.g. PGP Desktop), are proprietary to PGP Corp.
The software distributed by Free Software Foundation (e.g. GnuPG) and numerous others are entirely open source.
PGP, GPG, etc. follow the OpenPGP standard (RFC 4880).