21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird

Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by sushisource on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:51PM (#24510393)

Why even bother at this point? PGP encryption in email is... not a good way to do secure communication.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by unixhero on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:53PM (#24510416)

For one, it works.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by recursive on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:20PM (#24512293)

And if it doesn't work, you're doing it wrong. Or maybe never figured it out well enough to even try in the first place.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by jtsiskin on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:07PM (#24510567)

What’s wrong with PGP?

Or are you referring to email

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by nikisweeting on Thursday September 17, 2020 @06:22PM (#24510696)

There are many things wrong with both the UX and internal cryptographic design of PGP. Here are a few articles that go over those issues in more depth:

https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-ma...

https://secushare.org/PGP

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-pgp-is-fundamentall...

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by somedude11 on Friday September 18, 2020 @02:28AM (#24513559)

Yet it's the best we got right now.

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Re:21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to ... by nikisweeting on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @12:49PM (#24556813)

Well there's http://age-encryption.org/ and raw ed25519.

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