Re:More Encryption, More Notifications, More Email Security
by nickik on Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:26PM
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The problem is the security of you GPG jey. If my phone gets hacked or stolen I lose my key. Sure, my master key is not on my phone (or my workstation) but still a big deal.
I use Yubikey Smartcard both on my workstation and on my phone. The setup works, but its both exepnsive, takes a long time to set up and its fairly difficult to do. Now that I have the setup, I can only use it with a few friends.
Keybase is working on a more scalable solution. Every device has different keys and messages are encrypted for each device. This allows them to revoke individual devices. While deploying this to most non technical people, is still quite a challenge, at least its an attempt at solving the multi device problem. I can at least imagen how with their approch we could get wide use, while with traditional gpg I cant really see it.
I use Yubikey Smartcard both on my workstation and on my phone. The setup works, but its both exepnsive, takes a long time to set up and its fairly difficult to do. Now that I have the setup, I can only use it with a few friends.
Keybase is working on a more scalable solution. Every device has different keys and messages are encrypted for each device. This allows them to revoke individual devices. While deploying this to most non technical people, is still quite a challenge, at least its an attempt at solving the multi device problem. I can at least imagen how with their approch we could get wide use, while with traditional gpg I cant really see it.