PGP Criticisms
Discussions focus on the flaws of PGP encryption, including its obsolescence, poor usability, lack of adoption, and security shortcomings like missing forward secrecy, with frequent references to critical articles.
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No, PGP isn't much better.
Because pgp is broken and obsolete
A good resource on why PGP is too complicated - definitely opened my eyes and seems pertinent to this discussionhttps://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
PGP exists, it is just no one uses it
There was a link posted elsethread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29715664 ) which reviews a lot of the issues with PGP: https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
Surely this is sarcasm. Just in case it isn't, it's only fitting to link back to what Moxie Marlinspike wrote about PGP/GPG: https://moxie.org/blog/gpg-and-me/ (HN commentary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188 ).TL;DR: When will people start using gpg:
PGP doesn't have this problem
PGP suffers from lack of forward secrecy, no? It also suffers from the fact that no one uses it :D.
There's a big discussion about PGP here and why so many fail to use it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13114538Some of the comments are worth reading if not for the sheer size of the discussion. It could take an afternoon or two to fully digest that thread.The comments are in response to this: <a href="https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/" r
PGP is extremely hard to use, so no, it's not "fine". Usability is just as important as (if not more important than) cryptographical correctness!