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by brudgers 3675 days ago
Encryption isn't an obvious solution in a world where three letter agencies have the financial and technical wherewithal to PWN my devices and manipulate the entropy pool. I'll put on my tinfoil hat and imagine how many man-years agencies foreign and domestic have devoted to breaking cryptography since 1930 and the level of commitment patriots have to doing what they believe is patriotic before I evaluate the likelihood that commercial and amateur interests have the will and resources to thwart state level actors.

The problem of secure messaging is that there are exponential mismatches of resources. PGP and TLS are only as good as the entropy pools upon which an implementation relies.

Good luck.