GNU Privacy Guard- A Tool for Safe Computing

Abstract

In the modern era, digital communications play a vital role. For an elementary security, encryption is preventing a huge number of problems. When a data is passed through many number of nodes, we don’t know what vulnerability is present at each node. Our data may be affected. GPG encryption is a tool for encrypting emails, digital materials. It uses the concept of key pairs like public key, private key. The public keys are exchanged between the sender and the receiver. The private key is kept as a secret by user. This paper focus on new GNU privacy guard which is a tool to ensure security in huge users traffic and reliable data transmission .