[CaptainZapp]

Despite his German sounding name, I can assure you that Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, is very much an American.

[marktam264]

I think he meant GPG. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Koch

[excel2flow]

Yes, thanks for correction.

[escap]

He meant Werner Koch, the guy who is maintaining gnupg A few months ago, he asked again for donation, this time he got "good media exposure" and got funded. cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9011138

Facebook pledged to donate $50,000 a year to Koch’s project.

[CaptainZapp]

Uuups, my bad.

Thanks for corrections.