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There's not a singular thing at fault. Though there is nothing inherently free or decentralized about "PKI", and given your conflation of those concepts I susp
by donaldstufft 3y ago
There's not a singular thing at fault.
Though there is nothing inherently free or decentralized about "PKI", and given your conflation of those concepts I suspect that you're not actually aware of where the lines are drawn from.
Certainly the decentralized nature of PGP adds some challenges to good usability.
However, a large number of the problems come from the PGP spec itself (some of which is defensible in a 20+ year old spec, but not in anything in a modern system) and from GPG's poor implementation.
- prepend 3y agoI mean a PKI that I want to use. I only want to use a free PKI so everyone has access to it. And I only want decentralized as that seems sustainable to me without focusing power in a central entity. I use private, centralized, rather expensive PKI every day to log in for professional work. I wouldn’t want everyone to use that. And I wouldn’t trust my work for private secrets. I am pretty interested in this topic and would love for something better. But I’ve also used GPG for a few decades now and am able to communicate with people I need to. It’s certainly hard to use, but it’s pretty good for privacy purposes. What do you suggest we use instead?