Re:Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption
by arglebarnacle on Friday September 07, 2018 @02:06PM
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The GP was pretty clearly talking about PGP in the context of ordinary encrypted communication between people (like email). Keybase isn't competing with PGP for signing releases. In the field that we are talking about, PGP has absolutely failed to gain widespread traction outside a certain hard core group of nerds.
Re:Keybase’s browser extension subverts its encryption
by jedberg on Friday September 07, 2018 @02:09PM
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Those aren't a representative sample of computer users though. Those are in fact the most hard core of nerds. If you want to take a poll of users, look at even keybase users (already highly biased). How many of them use the PGP key that they had to create when they signed up? I know I don't.
This seems pretty inaccurate.
* Lots of software projects sign their releases with PGP.
* Almost all Linux distributions sign their software with PGP. If you use Linux, your security relies critically PGP.
* Github has support for PGP, and I see people use it.
* My random server hoster happens to sign all their emails with PGP.
You could claim that all these systems are run "by the most hard core of nerds", but at that point the statement loses its relevance.