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.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday December 27 2016, @06:04PM
S/MIME works well when supported by corporate IT. I have had less luck getting S/MIME to work in a personal context than I've had with PGP.
If companies used PGP internally, it'd work just as well as S/MIME.
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