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To: BTerclinger

pgp encrypted text is the most secure comms on the net.


19 posted on 11/17/2020 6:49:31 AM PST by lwd
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To: lwd

pgp encrypted text is the most secure comms on the net.

True. The biggest thing about PGP is keeping your private key secure. I wouldn't trust having such a key on an MS-Windows computer.

If the NSA didn't actively work to keep our communications insecure, we'd have PGP-based encrypted comms everywhere by now. A public key handshake would make the handling of the session key fairly trivial, and wouldn't require much overhead. I've been using PGP since it was nothing but a DOS command line program. Wish more people knew how to actually use it.

29 posted on 11/17/2020 8:15:50 AM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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