The GNU Privacy Guard Anthony Pell 1 min read Nov 29, 2004 GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. Because it does not use IDEA or RSA it can be used without any restrictions. GnuPG is a RFC2440 (OpenPGP) compliant application. The GNU Privacy Guard Prev: OpenSSL Project Next: Initial Cryptanalysis of the RSA SecurID Algorithm