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Re:Lavabit code open sourced by ryanlol on Sunday May 01, 2016 @04:51AM (#11605440)
>this sort of setup would be worse than PGP email

Why not use PGP then? It's not hard.

Re:Lavabit code open sourced by HappyTypist on Sunday May 01, 2016 @05:40AM (#11605551)
Re:Lavabit code open sourced by ryanlol on Sunday May 01, 2016 @08:25AM (#11605918)
I've read this several times, and while some of the points are correct it still feels like a marketing piece from Moxie.

gpg isn't difficult to use, hell my grandmother could do it. Concepts like private keys (this is the key you keep private) and public keys (this is the... well, public key) are trivial to understand.

You don't need to understand the technical details of encrypting and signing messages either, you just paste in the message and the pubkey key and encrypt.

It's by far the best email encryption solution we have right now, and I seriously doubt we'll be seeing anything better any time soon.

Re:Lavabit code open sourced by DanBC on Sunday May 01, 2016 @08:34AM (#11605939)
> gpg isn't difficult to use

Yet any research we have shows that people, even technical people, make simple but critical errors.