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Op-Ed: Why I'm Not Giving Up on PGP

posted by on Monday December 26 2016, @11:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-still-pretty-good dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

An Op-Ed piece from ArsTechnica:

Every once in a while, a prominent member of the security community publishes an article about how horrible OpenPGP is. Matthew Green wrote one in 2014 and Moxie Marlinspike wrote one in 2015. The most recent was written by Filippo Valsorda, here on the pages of Ars Technica, which Matthew Green says "sums up the main reason I think PGP is so bad and dangerous."

In this article I want to respond to the points that Filippo raises. In short, Filippo is right about some of the details, but wrong about the big picture. For the record, I work on GnuPG, the most popular OpenPGP implementation.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by EETech1 on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:27AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Tuesday December 27 2016, @07:27AM (#446258)

    Too bad you can't get a keyboard that doesn't send every key you press to the cloud!
    For spell checking, Swype analysis, and predictive words.

    Do these apps have their own secure keyboard?

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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday December 28 2016, @03:03PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday December 28 2016, @03:03PM (#446711) Journal

    Fair point too.