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felipelallilast Saturday at 1:14 AM2 repliesview on HN

Even though I read so many posts criticizing PGP, it's still difficult for me to find an alternative. He states in the article that being a "Swiss Army Knife" is bad. I understand the argument, but this is precisely what makes GPG so powerful. The scheme of public keys, private keys, revoke, embedded WOT, files, texts, everything. They urgently need to make a "modern version" of GPG. He needs a replacement, otherwise he'll just be whining.


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schoenlast Saturday at 2:04 AM

There's a section in this post with proposed replacements:

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/#th...

I was also frustrated with this criticism in the past, but there are definitely some concrete alternatives provided for many use cases there. (But not just with one tool.)

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stackghostlast Saturday at 3:40 AM

The so-called web of trust is meaningless security theatre.

>They urgently need to make a "modern version" of GPG.

Absolutely not.

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