Re:DecryptoCat
by zipfle on Thursday July 04, 2013 @12:31PM
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If the user is placing their trust in the UX's ability to validate that PGP/GPG is working correctly and has not been tampered with, that sounds exactly like something that could get someone killed.
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You can say the same thing about any piece of software; if Excel forgets how to multiply numbers, think of the horrible things that could happen! The difference is that multiplying two numbers isn't hard compared to getting a cryptosystem right, and neither is accurately displaying a key fingerprint.