(CNN) -- If you've been dreaming of your own scrambler phone since watching Bond movies as a kid, your time has come. As more business is done by email and more sensitive personal data is passed by phone, the demand for secure communication is growing. Employers can't always stop staff using their own insecure laptops for work and many of us are asked to provide a credit card number over the phone on a weekly basis. Governments want to know who we're talking to and marketing firms make it their business to know. Enter stage left a veteran of internet privacy. Phil Zimmermann is known for inventing the standard in email encryption -- PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) -- in the 1990s and for giving it away to the world for free, much to the annoyance of the U.S. government, which considered encryption software to be weaponry at the time and therefore restricted for export.
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Silent Circle encryption software will be available for phones and computers
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Secure calls for military personnel serving overseas was one driver for the product
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It's the work of Phil Zimmermann, who came up with PGP (Pretty Good Privacy)
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