[BLU/Officers] Crypto News talk for September keysigning meeting?

[Jerry Feldman]

The question for email users is as you mentioned, how else do we sign our
email. How does one send an end-to-end encrypted email.

One downside is that by sending encrypted messages that is a flag for
security agencies as well as some law enforcement.

I think maybe the talk should focus on relevance of PGP.


On Thu, Jul 18, 2019, 11:56 AM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will do the usual Crypto News & Historical Vignette talk.
>
> The question is, if I present as Crypto news why everyone should abandon
> both RSA and PGP/GPG - best advice from the cryptologists I respect - and
> what we should be using instead -- should we still proceed ironically to do
> a keysigning?
>
> Tqbf: I am so confused by the constant question of “well if not PGP then
>> what?”
>> Huh? Nobody uses PGP. It’s like asking “if not Betamax then what?” It’s
>> not even wrong.
>>
>
> Yes there's no *single* replacement. One ring to rule them all is part of
> the problem with PGP. It is impossible to make general purpose crypto
> that's easy to safely use for everything. Secure messaging and signing
> Debian/GIT packages are different use cases.
>
> the bigger problem with replacing PGP is that, if successful, all of the
>> PGP users become your users
>>
>
> (So that the list of replacement options is longer than what we're
> replacing.)
>
> I don't object to irony, i'm kind of fond of irony, but how long until the
> PGP web of trust meets the broom of indifference?
>
> // Bill
>
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