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Re:Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” ne... by criddell on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @02:05PM (#14754937)
I love the encryption ideas.

Do you know if PGP public/private key pairs can be used for ephemeral keys? I'd hate to rely on the same secret to store everything throughout time.

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Re:Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” ne... by girvo on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @10:12PM (#14758270)
I haven't had my morning coffee, but I believe that lack of forward-secrecy is exactly the main drawback with PGP as a protocol; but it's been a while since I looked at it
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Re:Ask HN: What feature would you want the web to “force” ne... by dredmorbius on Wednesday July 12, 2017 @07:33PM (#14757579)
PGP allows creation of subkeys. I'm not entirely clear that that's useful here, but it might be.
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