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So how does one migrate from the two password to the one? I like the idea of protonmail, but since they made it incompatible with normal public key encrypted ma
by polack 10y ago
So how does one migrate from the two password to the one?
I like the idea of protonmail, but since they made it incompatible with normal public key encrypted mail it's pretty useless for many of us, unfortunately...
- AlyssaRowan 10y agoLooks like it's over in the settings; just under Change Password is Switch to One-Password Mode.
- mtgx 10y agoPGP is quite difficult to use by most people, and it doesn't even support forward secrecy, which is a huge weakness. It will never be used by more than a core group of highly technical, which is maybe less than 0.01% of the population. If we're to push end-to-end encryption to the masses, then we ought to try to get forward secrecy in it, and it should be quite invisible to the user. That's not to say that ProtonMail is getting it right, but it's at least one of the few that are striving to move in that direction. Relevant post from Moxie from Open Whisper Systems: https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/ https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/
- nickik 10y agoI would like something better then GPG as well, but at the moment I have a group of contacts that I would like to write GPG with. If you have a replacement for GPG and E-Mail please tell me what it is.
- ticoombs 10y agoPossibly bitmessage. But adoption is even worse than pgp
- mapgrep 10y agoPerfect is the enemy of good. Mass adoption of PGP would made the work of hackers and spy agencies orders of magnitude harder. Moxie writes from a personal perspective and you'll notice he never claims to have something better in hand. His Signal still lacks utterly basic functionality provided by PGP, most important among them the ability to transmit arbitrary attachments (Signal only supports an undisclosed list of media attachments) but also including the ability to retain your messages long term in a particular location. Meanwhile, many of the tradeoffs made to make Signal easy could be made using PGP: Automatic generation of keys; centralized key repo; centralized mapping of keys to contact points (email/phone); trust by default.
- sleepingeights 10y agoEmail is becoming obsolete, and today's generations are using messaging apps which also provide PFS (fwd secrecy). PGP et. al. don't provide any of that. Today's messaging services (Signal, Wire, Telegram, etc...) outpace email by a significant margin.