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by testific8 1861 days ago
How so?
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I don't even know where to start: backwards compatibility to 90s era crypto, no forward secrecy, a web of trust model that encourages you to have a long-lived key – because with short-lived keys your trust has to be rebuilt after expiry, a cryptosystem that violently leaks metadata...

PGP should've died years ago; there are far better options today.