PGP needs to be retired in honor

Re:PGP needs to be retired in honor by twothamendment on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:49PM (#13717101)

There are quite a few things listed there, but I fail to see one that looks like a replacement for PGP. Many are some form of PGP compatible encryption - some different platforms Android(AGP), Windows(GPG4Win, Fort) Apple(GPG Suite for apple mail). Some will only encrypt files with a password, others encrypt your disk. There might be some good software there, but I don't see anything that can replace PGP/GnuPG.

Using PGP/GnuPG isn't always easy, but it works for so many things. Signing code, encrypting files, emails, signing messages - replacing it is a fairly high bar.

I'd love to see encryption easy and used everywhere, but a few popular apps don't add up to replacing this old work horse.

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Re:PGP needs to be retired in honor by mstef on Thursday February 23, 2017 @02:57PM (#13717177)

check out opmsg how it achieves compatibility with gnupg and imagine a tool that actually looks like gpg but figures out which crypto backend to call.

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Re:PGP needs to be retired in honor by falcolas on Thursday February 23, 2017 @03:22PM (#13717396)

Interesting project, but I'd personally want to see a lot more involvement and vetting from the crypto community at large. Especially when it creates new protocols like DH key exchange over email.

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