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What do you mean by "encryption is inherently complicated"? Conceptually, and thus in a cli frontend it should be pretty simple: you specify a message, a publi
by kreetx 4y ago
What do you mean by "encryption is inherently complicated"?
Conceptually, and thus in a cli frontend it should be pretty simple: you specify a message, a public key and a destination to encrypt, and then a ciphertext and a private key to decrypt. What is complicated?
- naasking 4y agoThe very first post in this thread you're responding to describes exactly why securing encryption is complicated.
- kreetx 4y agoDoes it? It says how managing keys in public key cryptography is complicated. As also signing and verification, and x509 certificates rely on this then one might say they too are complicated - as is everything else that builds on asymmetric crypto. I.e why encryption specifically is complicated? (Or am I just dense and missing something? :))
- naasking 4y agoThe poster you replied to was clearly talking about end-to-end secure encryption being complicated. This means guarding against supply chain attacks, secure sharing of keys, verification and signatures, etc.