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PGP is amazing, it’s the WWW of encryption. An interoperable, backwards-compatible, defacto-governed, resilient, fire-tested, time-tested collection of software
by forgotmypw17 2y ago
PGP is amazing, it’s the WWW of encryption. An interoperable, backwards-compatible, defacto-governed, resilient, fire-tested, time-tested collection of software for every used platform that just keeps on kicking and evolving, despite many challenges.
It has too many confusing features, and you don’t have to use any of them if you don’t want to. The core of public keys, signatures, and both symmetric and asymmetric encryption are solid. Just like if I write simple HTML, it will work in 20 years worth of browsers.
Few technologies can boast this type of lindyness, and I appreciate them a lot, especially when I can actually make use of them.
- lxgr 2y agoDo you mean GnuPG? I'm not sure if PGP (the software) still exists. I agree that the world is definitely better with widespread OpenPGP support in it, and I'm grateful for the role GnuPG played in that, but gpg could definitely use some fresh paint in terms of usability.
- forgotmypw17 2y agoI'm using "PGP" to refer to the entire ecosystem which uses "BEGIN PGP..." headers, including GnuPG, OpenPGP, and the variety of software packages and libraries available for just about every platform and language.