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by stilisstuk 2361 days ago
Why is the problem with pgp? Everybody agrees? But why? It's secure and versatile?
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PGP is secure and versatile. It's also somewhat dated and GPG is quite an awful implementation to interact with. It barely composes with anything that wants to abstract it's insane UI into something an average user understands. It has dated defaults and supports outdated cryptography, while GPG has very dated UI and refuses to properly support bindings so applications can safely interact with it.