The Call of the Open Sidewalk

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A completely partisan pro-OpenPGP series of articles.

• I am a PGP FAN (Meta)
• 2048 bit RSA Keys
• PGP is a Form of Minimalism
• Forward Secrecy
• Off the Record
• Deniability
• The MD5 Story
• Downgrade Attack Immunity
• Oracle Attack Immunity
• The EFAIL Hoax
• Email Clients
• Authenticated Encryption
• The OpenPGP Modification Detection Code is Actually Good
• Could Age Replace OpenPGP?
• Anonymous Encrypted Messages
• Signed Anonymous Messages
• Encrypt Once
• Certify Once
• Cipher Feedback; a Paean
• The Envelope Subject
• OpenPGP's Improved Cipher Feedback Mode (OCFB)
• On the Use of Theoretical Cryptography Jargon in Casual Conversation
• Misleading Legends Caused by EFAIL

Articles intended to primarily educate.

• OpenPGP Identity Structure
• SMTP STARTTLS
• A Demonstration of Message Burning Through Encryption using GnuPG
• Principles of the OpenPGP SEIP (OCFB-MDC) and SE (OCFB) Block Cipher Modes
• The Why of PGP Authentication

• The PGP Problem: A Critique
• What’s the matter with PGP? ― Some Comments
• Surreptitious Forwarding
• Seriously, stop using RSA: comments
• The Cryptographic Doom Principle: Some Observations
• Legacy Encryption Downgrade Attacks against LibrePGP and CMS: Some Comments

• Replacing the OpenPGP Encryption Mode is Harmful and Pointless
• PGP Key Expiry is a Usability Nightmare
• About the "OpenPGP Schism" (2023 Dec)
• Problems caused by new OpenPGP authenticated encryption modes
• Proposed New OpenPGP Cipher Block Modes Could Cause an Interoperability Disaster