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dsecurity49today at 6:11 AM4 repliesview on HN

The Snowden quote at the bottom of every single Werner Koch email has been living rent-free in my head since 2013. Also the fact that this project has been running since the late 90s, financed almost entirely by donations, and is quietly protecting basically all serious encrypted communication on the planet — and the announcement still goes out as a plain text email to a mailing list. No Medium post. No Twitter thread. No 'we're excited to share'. Just: here's the tarball, here's the SHA-1, verify it. Absolute last line of defense energy.


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snthpytoday at 8:00 AM

And they use SHA-1 for verification?

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joretoday at 7:10 AM

I haven’t heard this quote before, but I am copying it here because it makes so much sense:

Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say. - Edward Snowden

pabs3today at 7:33 AM

IIRC the GnuPG folks do a lot of consulting and sell additional software:

https://gnupg.org/service.html https://gnupg.com/ https://g10code.com/

gtsnexptoday at 7:18 AM

This is deeply inspiring 'No Medium post. No Twitter thread. No 'we're excited to share'. Just: here's the tarbal' Thank you!