What's the matter with PGP?

Re:What's the matter with PGP? by tptacek on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @03:11PM (#8174513)

Yes. DNSSEC. Because what we need is a trusted arbiter, and who better to fulfill that role than the governments of the US, or whatever country happens to own the TLD I use?

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Re:What's the matter with PGP? by marcosdumay on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @09:43PM (#8175732)

Well, it's at least better than X500. With DNSSEC you only have to trust one government, not all of them.

And you can also get more than one domain, in more than one TLD. Not very practical for automatic verification, but for surviving a manual verification several governments would have to collude against you.

I still think that there must be something better. But I'm probably not good enough to create it.

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Re:What's the matter with PGP? by mentat on Wednesday August 13, 2014 @04:06PM (#8174770)

Governments, always trustworthy, especially for their own citizens.

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