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I’d be interested to know if there are freepers out there who use GPG/PGP.

It’s not good crypto unless the source code for the algorithms are fully documented, preferably by source.


9 posted on 04/09/2021 6:15:07 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: zeugma
I'd be interested to know if there are freepers out there who use GPG/PGP.

I do. And I also have a copy of the PGP book, purchased when there was all the discussion in government circles about embargoing encryption. I still remember all the legal eagles saying that publishing the algorithms in book form trumps the embargo of source.

Remember the T-shirts that had DECSS printed on them?

Says the guy that keyed Small C from Dr. Dobbs those many years go.

12 posted on 04/09/2021 8:00:39 AM PDT by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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> I’d be interested to know if there are freepers out there who use GPG/PGP.

Absolutely yes. Have used it since the late 90's for all sorts of things. Originally PhilZ's PGP, then when it got bought out, I had licenses for the PGP commercial product, and eventually converted over to GnuPG (GPG) and have used that since.

Started out with 2048-bit keys, now only use 4096.

I believe in it, and frankly it's the one I trust the most. And even it gets bug fixes from time to time (via Ubuntu apt-get).

Nothing's perfect but GnuPG is pretty damn good.

16 posted on 04/09/2021 1:01:09 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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