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Op-ed: Why I'm not giving up on PGP

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Ars Technica; By Neal H. Walfield 		Mail this story
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Every once in a while, a prominent member of the security community publishes an article about how horrible OpenPGP is. Matthew Green wrote one in 2014 and Moxie Marlinspike wrote one in 2015. The most recent was written by Filippo Valsorda, here on the pages of Ars Technica, which Matthew Green says "sums up the main reason I think PGP is so bad and dangerous."

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dotmatrix ·
I agree entirely with the author.

I would also add that PGP should be made available as an authentication mechanism for:

1. Web Logins.

2. Email Logins.

3. OS Logins.

It should be just as easy to use PGP for authentication as it is to use x509.

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