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My response to "The PGP Problem": * https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp

• tptacek 6y ago
  This is a good response for people who believe "[PGP has an extensible record format] because a long term standard must be extensible". I think you would have trouble finding cryptography engineers who think this is a strong statement; the last 20-odd years of practical cryptography research have instead made a very strong case that the most "extensibility" you want in a cryptosystem is a version number. I think the rest follows from there. It's easy to mount of a defense of PGP if you just ignore cryptography engineering and focus on how important it is for tools to follow the same proven Unix-flavored design as Awk. Which, of course, is what PGP is: the Awk of cryptography.