By the way, I just *love* my iPhone’s desire to help me with words it thinks I’ve misspelled. :)
-Ryan McGinnis https://bigstormpicture.com PGP: 5C73 8727 EE58 786A 777C 4F1D B5AA 3FA3 486E D7AD Sent with ProtonMail ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 7:10 AM, Ryan McGinnis <r...@digicana.com> wrote: > Right, I probably wasn’t being very clear with what I meant. What I’m saying > is that people who use PGP at the moment are rather tech savvy, lady over > from the legacy of the fact that for most of PGP’s existence a user had to be > tech savvy to even get PGP backed out of the metaphorical garage. Because of > this, applications that use PGP all seem designed to make that crowd happy. > But making that crowd happy necessarily excludes the much larger crowd that > would never need, consider, or even understand aid-gapping. > > Signal went the other way. Build a verifiably secure communications platform > so easy that literally anyone can figure it out. Make it hard to impossible > to screw up. Most of the people who implemented secure whisper adopted this > philosophy. No, it’s not federated, but in terms of real-world impact it > actually has one because people actually use it to communicate. > > -Ryan McGinnis > https://bigstormpicture.com > PGP: 5C73 8727 EE58 786A 777C 4F1D B5AA 3FA3 486E D7AD > Sent with ProtonMail > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 3:06 AM, Peter Lebbing pe...@digitalbrains.com wrote: > > > On 01/07/2019 23:55, 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 > > > > None of any of the alternatives to OpenPGP you mention solve the issue > > that a secure offline system sets out to solve. They are orthogonal > > issues. > > Alternatives to OpenPGP have the same need or lack of need of a secure > > offline system as OpenPGP itself. The only difference I can think of > > would be in the number of messages disclosed or the range of signatures > > that could be faked by a compromise, not the base premise of disclosure > > and impersonation. > > You might well reasonably object to the UX of OpenPGP. Just not on the > > ground that there are people who think about offline secure systems, > > that makes no sense to me. The two are unrelated. The only relation I > > can think of is that people who think about deploying offline secure > > systems probably aren't quickly scared off by an overly complicated > > system ;-). > > Cheers, > > Peter. > > > > I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. > > You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. > > My key is available at http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter
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