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...Pretty Good Privacy) is a popular public-key encryption system originally developed by computer nerd-turned-political activist Philip Zimmermann. Check it out on the World Wide Web at http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html for information on creating your own keys...
However, public-key encryption created a headache for the NSA by giving ordinary citizens -- and savvy criminals -- a way to exchange coded messages that could not be easily cracked. That headache became a nightmare in 1991, when a cypherpunk programmer named Phil Zimmermann combined public-key encryption with some conventional algorithms in a piece of software he called PGP -- pretty good privacy -- and proceeded to give it away, free of charge, on the Internet...
That's still a big if. Zimmermann is already working on a version of PGP for voice communications that could compete directly with Clipper, and if it finds a market, similar products are sure to follow. "The crypto genie is out of the bottle," says Steven Levy, who is writing a book about encryption. If that's true, even the NSA may not have the power to put it back...
Health officials made valiant efforts to play down the threat of infection. "The absolute risk for the general population is extremely low," insisted Dr. Robert Zimmermann, head of the blood bank at Berlin's Rudolf Virchow Clinic. Dr. Elke Gossrau of the German Red Cross put the risk at about 1 in 1 million...
Though the Serbs make up only a third of the population of Bosnia- Herzegovina , they are, says U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann, "trying to take over two-thirds of the country." In their campaign to carve out a Greater Serbia and expel Croats and Slavic Muslims, the Serbs have created hundreds of thousands of refugees; Serbs have been pushed out by Croats and Muslims in response. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said it was the largest uprooting of population "in Europe since the Second World...