Re:Modern Alternatives to PGP
by tptacek on Friday February 15, 2019 @07:34PM
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That's nice and all, and I don't doubt it, but in this instance, that cultural memory is (ironically) leading Germans to use inferior cryptography, and isn't serving them well.
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Care to substantiate? What inferior encryption are you talking about?
Presumably old encryption/sign constructs used by pgp/gpg coupled with issues with serialization/de-serialization of data/cipher text?
you know what is worse than inferior cryptography? no cryptography. security is a human problem and people like me needs a well supported tool with lots of tutorial and plugins for almost every application and a manageable sets of quirks.
I agree that the illusion of security has drawbacks, but so does using too many tools that you don't properly understand.