While most people might not know what PGP encryption is, almost everyone with access to an email account uses it regularly. It’s one of the most popular ways to digitally sign, encrypt or decrypt emailed documents, adding an additional level of security of email communications. But what might sound like a fairly dry and mundane tool has a history fraught with intrigue, peril, spy agencies and very real threats to the creator, a computer scientist named Phil Zimmerman.

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RealMetrics, who monitors LuxSci’s servers for reliability, currently ranks LuxSci as the top email hosting company.  This is based on combined measurements of server uptime and the speed and reliability of the delivery of sent email messages.  Over the past 3 months, LuxSci has shown 100% uptime and 100% reliability in the delivery of email to test addresses (each of which was delivered in 12 seconds or less).

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