The use of modern technologies in order to circumvent security devices interception is increasingly entering criminal proceedings.
To end up under accusation in a proceeding that ended on August 30, 2018 in Cassation and relating to the challenge of an order of the Court of Liberty of Naples is the PGP (pretty good privacy) cryptographic software and the use of WhatsApp chats.
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), is a family of cryptographic software for authentication and privacy, from which the OpenPGP standard is derived.
It is probably the most widely adopted cryptosystem in the world, described by cryptographer Bruce Schneier as the way to get «probably closest to military-grade encryption.».
PGP was originally developed by Phil Zimmermann In the 1991, and even considered at the beginning of its history as a weapon of war, forcing the developer itself to disclose it outside the United States.
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