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> I don't know what you know, but I can say that Signal and Signal Protocol have protected so many more messages than PGP that, by comparison and to a rough fir
by shp0ngle 7y ago
> I don't know what you know, but I can say that Signal and Signal Protocol have protected so many more messages than PGP that, by comparison and to a rough first approximation, we could say that PGP has protected effectively no messages
I can believe it about Signal protocol, since it’s implemented on Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger. But, if you talk just about Signal proper, are you sure it protected more messages and more people than PGP?
I see this claim fairly often, but no data to back it up
- aidenn0 7y agoAnecdotally I've received e-mails from two people with S/MIME or PGP signatures and zero encrypted e-mails. There are about a dozen people in my contact list with Signal, some of whom I exchange messages with regularly.
- Fnoord 7y agoIt is causing issues for forensics (before that people were using SMS, IMAP, and SMTP; all without TLS). It isn't fool proof, for example if your adversary can gain access to Google Drive or iCloud via a warrant. Although making backups via such platforms is optional.