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I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that GPG encryption for email (and other data) is freely available. It would be considerably more generally
by pnathan 14y ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that GPG encryption for email (and other data) is freely available. It would be considerably more generally usable if someone with design skills contributed to the projects. The Mac GPG integration is nice, but in my explorations outside of that, it's been... difficult to use. Particularly galling is the key distribution problem. :-)
- fauigerzigerk 14y agoEncryption has a couple of drawbacks. If you happen to be unable to decrypt something the authorities want to see, you go to jail for a long time in some countries. And then of course I can't make everyone I communicate with use encryption. So all I can do is encrypt incoming mail, which is rather pointless because there's another unencrypted copy out there and the mail headers will give away where to look.
- mtgx 14y agoIt seems the OTR protocol works around that, as I think the messages are not stored indefinitely like with PGP: http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/otr-wpes.pdf http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/otr-wpes.pdf
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