Security by obscurity is underrated

Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by fractionalhare on Friday September 11, 2020 @04:16PM (#24446881)

I agree that there is nothing better than GPG for the narrow scope of encrypting email. But I think there are very few cases where encrypted email is the most secure way to communicate, in lieu of other forms of encryption.

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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by somedude11 on Friday September 11, 2020 @05:38PM (#24447590)

Encrypted email is almost a marginal usage scenario for GPG compared to other uses. It does everything. It is everywhere.Yes it is big, nobody has to use all of it. Just like C++... oh wait it is unpopular on hacker news bubble too despite being a juggernaut of a language. It will still be relevant long after hacker news will be no more.

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Re:Security by obscurity is underrated by samatman on Friday September 11, 2020 @06:41PM (#24448073)

I basically use GPG for one thing, at this point: signing git commits.

As far as I know, there isn't another GitHub/GitLab compatible way to do this. So I'll keep using GPG until there is.

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