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Deal Radar 2009: PGP Corporation
Posted on Tuesday, Dec 15th
The original PGP Inc., a startup based on “Pretty Good Privacy” encryption software, was acquired by McAfee in 1997. In 2002, McAfee sold PGP’s assets to former PGP executives after being unable to harvest profits from the unit. But in 2002 the encryption market began to take off, and co-founders Philip Dunkelberger and Alex Doll
