Philip Zimmermann

Audio/Video: Music, Lectures, and TV clips

Songs about PGP

Choose a recording to download. These are MP3 files.

PGP by Psykosonik, from their Unlearn album. Recorded in 1996, I think. Used with permission from Paul Sebastien. Psykosonik has disbanded, but Paul's new band is called Basic Pleasure Model.
Unlearn album art lyrics for PGP

PGP filk song by Leslie Fish, recorded in 1994. Used with permission.
PGP filk song lyrics, text file.

Podcasts, lectures, and news coverage

Phil Zimmermann: Communications Security | Talks at Google, Zurich, 55 minutes, 13 June 2016 (Youtube).

Philip Zimmermann, History of the Crypto Wars - POW Summit 2023, Prague, 50 minutes, Sep 2023 (Youtube).

Phil Zimmermann on Tech Nation. 32 minutes. Conversation with Moira Gunn on the PGP story, the Zfone Project, and surveillance technology, broadcast on 1 March 2009, for the radio show Tech Nation, at KQED in San Francisco.

Podcast - Perspectives on Privacy. A discussion of how the legal environment has changed in the years since PGP was developed, recorded in 2007.

PGP War Stories. 42 MBytes. One of my better lectures, recorded in July 2001 in San Francisco.

Here is a talk from one of the DEF CON Hacker conferences:

DEF CON 11 - A Conversation with Phil Zimmermann, August 2003 (Youtube).

Phil Zimmermann on The Whole Story of PGP, in two formats:

A comprehensive but engaging telling of the legal travails of PGP, placed in the context of the crypto revolution of the 1990s. About 95 minutes, presented on 24 October 2004 at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. This is my best storytelling narrative to date on this subject matter.

This audience just wanted to hear PGP stories, but usually I speak on a broader range of topics. For details, click here.

NPR's coverage of the end of the PGP investigation

Justice Department drops Zimmermann case
Morning Edition - January 12, 1996, National Public Radio, Washington DC
(Ironically, this NPR News broadcast includes another story immediately following the PGP story that reminds us why people sometimes need protection from their own governments.)

©1996 National Public Radio, Inc. News reports titled “Cryptography Programmer Charges Dropped”
by Dan Charles and Bob Edwards, originally broadcast on NPR’s Morning Edition
on January 12, 1996. Used with the permission of NPR.
Any unauthorized duplication is strictly prohibited.

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