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

Jan Schaumann jschauma at netmeister.org
Sat Feb 21 21:03:07 EST 2015


"Isaac (.ike) Levy" <ike at blackskyresearch.net> wrote:

> Why are we all still OK with this gnu-pg stuff, and all this RMS-ware?

Total self-promotional tangent, but fwiw, I wrote a tool a while ago to
allow people to share secrets using their (presumed to be well-known)
ssh keys:

https://github.com/jschauma/jass

That is, I completely outsourced the problem of key authenticity to the
user (or, preferably, your already trusted (LDAP) infrastructure),
allowing users to be able to encrypt/decrypt data with a little bit more
ease.

This worked well enough for at least one fairly large engineering
organization.  Not the same use-cases as PGP by far, but I figured it's
at least somewhat related. ;-)

-Jan
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