The Call of the Open Sidewalk

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   - In terms of technical complexity, it is one of the simplest systems you can actually use for practical work with public key cryptography.   - In terms of technical complexity, it is one of the simplest systems you can actually use for practical work with public key cryptography.
  
-This is directly at odds with the sort of things you read about PGP in the technical press. It occurred to me that if PGP can have anti-fans it can also have fans. These PGP advocacy articles are the result.+This is directly at odds with the sort of things you read about PGP in the technical press. It occurred to me that if PGP can have anti-fans it can also have fans. These PGP advocacy articles are the result. I must sincerely extend thanks to the author of those articles for the motivation. They are good rants.
  
 The terminology that applies to encrypted messaging is not that well standardized. In this series of articles, when I use the word "identity" I mean the thing that uniquely identifies a particular entity using a particular system. For example, a PGP identity is the public key used for verifying a PGP signature. The terminology that applies to encrypted messaging is not that well standardized. In this series of articles, when I use the word "identity" I mean the thing that uniquely identifies a particular entity using a particular system. For example, a PGP identity is the public key used for verifying a PGP signature.
pgpfan/pgpfan.txt · Last modified: 2021/03/12 18:25 by b.walzer