Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users wrote: > > Null modem transfer of your messages? Yikes. To me that’s the issue with > PGP in general as it relates to secure communications - the nerds and the > criminals and the spies know how to work it, but your average end user > doesn’t need their step one to be “go to a Goodwill in a city you don’t live > in wearing a disguise and buy a laptop with cash”, they need PGP to almost be > automatic. Think of how easy it is to bootstrap Signal and how hard you’d > have to try to accidentally send something cleartext over that application. > Linking your key to a new device is as easy as scanning QR code. Perfect > forward secrecy, rich media, voice and video synchronous communications > upgrades, you name it. And my grandma could probably set it up without > help. I guarantee most big data scooping intelligence services are a lot > more worried about OpenWhisper protocol than PGP because *people actually use > it*. Just being caught with WhatApp in China can get you sent to a camp, > depending on your ethnicity.
Not to be off-topic, but you gave me the keyword "China" ... I just recently found this and was wondering what purpose it serves? Are people in China also allowed to use GnuPG? pgp.ustc.edu.cn/ Regards Stefan _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users