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Well, I always ignore the more grandiose claims - since there is currently no alternative for GPG, and installing Electron apps for Signal or Wire (which then u
by runn1ng 7y ago
Well, I always ignore the more grandiose claims - since there is currently no alternative for GPG, and installing Electron apps for Signal or Wire (which then use a single centralized server) really isn’t a viable GPG alternative
But even if you don’t agree with the argument that federation is dead and we truly need Electron apps (with eternally outdated Chrome instances) for secure communication, still you have to admit that PGP is arcane, the cryptography is not modern, and people by and large are ignoring the “web of trust” system. PGP needs a dramatic overhaul, at the end it won’t really be PGP.
(I am not sure if there isn’t a double ratchet system working in federated way. Jabber with OMEMO/OTRv3? Matrix? I don’t know)
- feanaro 7y agoMatrix uses double ratchet crypto and is federated, yes. Encryption is not on by default yet due to UX problems, though. It's supposed to be solved soon.