Re:A Schism in the OpenPGP World
by tptacek on Thursday December 07, 2023 @07:40PM
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I would like you to name a cryptography engineer of any note that advocates for the underlying technical details of the X.509 CA system. For that matter, I'd be interested in whether you could name one of any note that works for any CA, LetsEncrypt possibly excluded.
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Why do you, and your supposed cryptography engineers, talk shit about everything that is actually used instead of doing something useful like making those things better or providing alternatives?
It's getting really hard to take you seriously. You hate gpg, you hate pki and you always claim to know better than industry standards without providing any details whatsoever.
I don't know where "you hate PKI" comes from. Certainly I dislike X.509! It's a terrible protocol/format, and I doubt even its own designers would repeat the mistake. But I use the WebPKI, and have spent most of my time on HN talking about it defending it.
I'm pretty comfortable with who does and doesn't take me seriously, for what it's worth. You don't have to if you don't want to.
Okay you hate X509. Should we just ditch https then?
It's as if you stopped reading 1/3 of the way into the comment you're replying to.
What? You want me to acknowledge this?
> I'm pretty comfortable with who does and doesn't take me seriously, for what it's worth. You don't have to if you don't want to.
Cool. Happy for you bro.
What would you say https://www.latacora.com/blog/2018/04/03/cryptographic-right... and https://www.latacora.com/blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting/ are, if not "doing something useful like making those things better or providing alternatives"
Grandstanding blog posts? Where is the superior pgp or x509 replacement?
I think we've bottomed out this thread, if somebody saying something negative about something you like is "talking shit" and saying something positive about things you don't like is "grandstanding".