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Please let PGP retire as a pioneer now and not as a laggard tomorrow. - https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html https://latacora.micro.blog

• gspr 5y ago
  Well, then there needs to be a widely adopted, standardized alternative.
• dane-pgp 5y ago
  If we're sharing obligatory links, then a detailed critique of "The PGP Problem" is: https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp It's true, though, that much work is needed to bring PGP up to the levels expected of modern crypto tools. Hopefully some of that will happen as a result of the work happening in the IETF: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh-03.html https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-re... and due to technology built around it, such as: https://delta.chat/en/ https://delta.chat/en/ https://autocrypt.org/ https://autocrypt.org/
  • atoponce 5y ago
    > https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp Some rebuttals to that critique outline that the author doesn't fully understand the arguments Thomas Ptacek laid out, and may have a simplified understanding of PGP: https://lobste.rs/s/tyaze3 https://lobste.rs/s/tyaze3 and https://redd.it/negkdl https://redd.it/negkdl