[talk] How I stopped worrying, and learned to love GPG

Brian Callahan bcallah at devio.us
Sat Feb 21 20:02:33 EST 2015


Hi Ike --

For reasons I can't figure out, Thunderbird has totally mangled your
email so I'll reproduce the relevant parts here and reply.

> Who really trusts GPG these days?

I guess I do, by way of the fact that I keep myself running the latest
GPG-modern (2.1.2 as of now). I'll be excited when more make it over to
this side of the fence and I can start using my EC keys for real.

> And, my last question- the *BSD world is filled with so many impacting
> cryptographers, and some of the most prolific security-minded
> programmers in the world.  Why are we all still OK with this gnu-pg
> stuff, and all this RMS-ware?

tedu@ has a "simple, semi-modern wannabe PGP clone" called reop. I think
it's in FreeBSD's ports tree.
Code is here: https://github.com/tedu/reop
Post about it: http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/reop
With that said, I only know about it. Not used it. Would be interested
in hearing Ted's thoughts on the current version of the code and future
directions (but no idea if he's on this list or reads it).

~Brian

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