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mratsim

Please let PGP retire as a pioneer now and not as a laggard tomorrow.

- https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

- https://soatok.blog/2020/07/08/gnu-a-heuristic-for-bad-crypt...

- https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d695...

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If we're sharing obligatory links, then a detailed critique of "The PGP Problem" is:

https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp

It's true, though, that much work is needed to bring PGP up to the levels expected of modern crypto tools. Hopefully some of that will happen as a result of the work happening in the IETF:

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-re...

and due to technology built around it, such as:

https://delta.chat/en/

https://autocrypt.org/

> https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:tpp

Some rebuttals to that critique outline that the author doesn't fully understand the arguments Thomas Ptacek laid out, and may have a simplified understanding of PGP:

https://lobste.rs/s/tyaze3 and https://redd.it/negkdl

Well, then there needs to be a widely adopted, standardized alternative.

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