Werner Koch
Werner Koch (born July 11, 1961) is a German . He is best known as the principal author of the (GnuPG or GPG). He was also Head of Office and German Vice-Chancellor of the . He is the winner of in 2015 for founding GnuPG.
Journalists and security professionals rely on GnuPG, and used it to evade monitoring whilst he from the U.S. .
Life and work
Koch lives in , near , Germany. He began writing in 1997, inspired by attending a talk by who made a call for someone to write a replacement for Phil Zimmermann‘s (PGP) which was subject to .