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It is so easy to blame software, is it? 1. If you are not able to manage your keys, which includes a simple unencrypted key-backup, you are doomed, even with a
by noerps 13y ago
It is so easy to blame software, is it?
1. If you are not able to manage your keys, which includes a simple unencrypted key-backup, you are doomed, even with a pretty interface.
2. If you insist on other people to take away the responsibility from you, no service, hard- or software will provide security or privacy for you.
3. You don't need a cloud, when decentralized or local services crater you much better and faster.
4. Sharing data isn't really a problem, it's the lack of transparency of the data collecting entity that creates the problem.
The conclusion is, to protect your security/privacy and to successfully utilize any crypto-toolchain you have to accept that responsibility isn't comfy, and delegation will lead to compromise.
Did you really believe that any government, or parts thereof, in the world would not tap the vast resources that packet-switched networks, centralized services would offer them?
Zacqary knows nothing about security, secure procedures or even cryprography.
If you delegate your private, unsecured communications to an entity for a comfortable user experience, you did not want either security and privacy.
Sorry, to tell you so.
- ef4 13y ago> If you are not able to manage your keys, which includes a simple unencrypted key-backup, you are doomed, even with a pretty interface. Too many hackers equate "good user experience" with "pretty interface". It's a mistake. A good user experience really would abstract the complexity out of key management, without compromising security. This is one of the most important outstanding problems you could solve: find a way to leverage people's existing meatspace notions of trust in a concrete way to build a robust PKI. If you can make the whole process by the side-effect of a game, so much the better. And give them keys that are physical things -- they know how to protect valuable physical things, and they know who they can trust with a backup copy. None of this is easy, but it's vitally important.