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Your comparisons don't help, they are just verbose ways for you to (re-)state that you think publishing a key on keys.openpgp.org obviously means "you can email

by jraph 3y ago

Your comparisons don't help, they are just verbose ways for you to (re-)state that you think publishing a key on keys.openpgp.org obviously means "you can email me encrypted" and that others may be a bit stupid to think otherwise (a bit like your "You can't yell at people for thinking "publish" meant publish" sentence, honestly, cut the bullshit) I don't believe this to be the case. It's fine that we don't agree on this. Do you have sources? Because that would settle the discussion for good. Happy to be wrong. I'm not an expert on this stuff anyway. Now, I also believe that it's not a big deal, if you unexpectedly receive an encrypted mail you can still decrypt it using your private key and if you don't know how to do this, you can always send your recipient "Hey, sorry, you sent me an encrypted mail that I can't decrypt, can you send me one without encryption?". Unless, of course, your recipient's provider doesn't let them do this. Maybe Proton doing this will push the ecosystem toward a more seamless support for encrypted mail, so it might even be a good thing. I don't know.

soraminazuki 3y ago
I mean encrypting email was what PGP was created for. It's my understanding that uploading keys was a sign that you wanted your emails to be encrypted as much as possible. Not a mere "I'll accept encrypted emails, even if begrudgingly." Here's a snippet from the PGP FAQ last updated in 1998: > Public Key Servers exist for the purpose of making your public key available in a common database where everybody can have access to it for the purpose of encrypting messages to you. Anyone who wants to write you a message, or to check a signature on a message from you, can get your key from the keyserver, so he doesn't have to bother you with it. https://www.pgp.net/pgp-faq/faq.html#8.1 https://www.pgp.net/pgp-faq/faq.html#8.1 Of course, the writing was on the wall for PGP in email when I created my first keys a decade ago. But it was still touted as a tool for encrypting emails even then during the height of the Snowden disclosures. The complete loss of interest in using it for email is a relatively new phenomenon.

by jraph 3y ago

soraminazuki 3y ago

I mean encrypting email was what PGP was created for. It's my understanding that uploading keys was a sign that you wanted your emails to be encrypted as much as possible. Not a mere "I'll accept encrypted emails, even if begrudgingly." Here's a snippet from the PGP FAQ last updated in 1998: > Public Key Servers exist for the purpose of making your public key available in a common database where everybody can have access to it for the purpose of encrypting messages to you. Anyone who wants to write you a message, or to check a signature on a message from you, can get your key from the keyserver, so he doesn't have to bother you with it. https://www.pgp.net/pgp-faq/faq.html#8.1 https://www.pgp.net/pgp-faq/faq.html#8.1 Of course, the writing was on the wall for PGP in email when I created my first keys a decade ago. But it was still touted as a tool for encrypting emails even then during the height of the Snowden disclosures. The complete loss of interest in using it for email is a relatively new phenomenon.