The Call of the Open Sidewalk

From a place slightly to the side of the more popular path

User Tools

Site Tools

pgpfan:pgpfan

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Next revision		Previous revision
pgpfan:pgpfan [2020/05/20 20:43] – created b.walzerpgpfan:pgpfan [2021/03/12 18:25] (current) – The email article is not really relevant. Rant is good. b.walzer
Line 3: Line 3:
 This is about how I became a fan of PGP. By PGP I mean things compliant with the [[https://www.openpgp.org/|OpenPGP standard]] and the standard itself, not necessarily the corporation of the same name. This is about how I became a fan of PGP. By PGP I mean things compliant with the [[https://www.openpgp.org/|OpenPGP standard]] and the standard itself, not necessarily the corporation of the same name.
  
-Recently (2020) there have been some articles about how PGP is a bad idea. They tend to show up whenever someone mentions PGP, even in passing. I think these are the ones:+Recently (2020) there have been some articles about how PGP is a bad idea. They tend to show up whenever someone mentions PGP, even in passing. This one is often referenced:
  
  
   * [[https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html|The PGP Problem]]   * [[https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html|The PGP Problem]]
-  * [[https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted.html|Stop Using Encrypted Email]] 
  
 It seemed remarkable to me that anyone would bother to take the trouble to write anti-PGP articles in this day and age. It isn't really anything most people give much thought to, even those that actually use it. PGP was something I had not thought about for at least 30 years and the articles caused me to wonder what the current state of the PGP ecosystem was here in the 21st century. It seemed remarkable to me that anyone would bother to take the trouble to write anti-PGP articles in this day and age. It isn't really anything most people give much thought to, even those that actually use it. PGP was something I had not thought about for at least 30 years and the articles caused me to wonder what the current state of the PGP ecosystem was here in the 21st century.
Line 17: Line 16:
   - 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 extend thanks to the author of the previously mentioned article for the motivation. I am not being sarcastic; I have come to understand the value of a good rant.  
 + 
 +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:index|PGP FAN index]]
  
pgpfan/pgpfan.1590007436.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/05/20 20:43 by b.walzer