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I think most people complaining about GPG just don't want to be bothered with figuring anything out. They'd rather input their phone number into some cloud app
by encryptluks2 5y ago
I think most people complaining about GPG just don't want to be bothered with figuring anything out. They'd rather input their phone number into some cloud app that says it is secure and feel more secure than actually be bothered with understanding security in the first place.
- akerl_ 5y agoThis is pretty wild. I’ve spent a decade working in the industry, most of it unwinding complex infrastructure and codebases. I don’t hate GPG because I can’t be bothered to figure it out. I understand it and it’s bad at handling the problems it claims to solve.
- encryptluks2 5y agoSuch as? Can you provide any examples?
- akerl_ 5y agohttps://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
- encryptluks2 5y agoI really don't have time to go through every item in the biased article, but you can hide recipients, you can use Ed25519. Seriously, if I was influenced by every blog post I read then I would probably be using Windows 7 still and trusting everything Gartner says.
- akerl_ 5y agoIt seems a bit rude to ask me for examples, have me provide one, and then just shrug it off that you don’t have time to address the items. “You can use ed25519” kindof flies in the face of the point being made in the post, which is that sure, you can use modern crypto, but you’re bounded by the lowest common denominator, and GPG’s lowest common denominator is horrible broken crypto selections.
- encryptluks2 5y agoYet the article is just making baseless accusations and so are you.