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[openpgp] Manifesto - who is the new OpenPGP for?

ianG <iang@iang.org> Wed, 25 March 2015 00:17 UTC

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On 24/03/2015 03:36 am, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> Long story short:
> I don't think that OpenPGP was ever the system of the masses, and
> perhaps it even shouldn't be.


OK!  Now that's the beginnings of a manifesto.  It's a position, plain 
and simple.

I think differently - I think a system that doesn't target the masses is 
doomed.

What do others think?

This is no light question, it could decide who participates, what the 
security model is, how 'hard' it is, where the compromises are found ... 
and decide its ultimate success.



iang



ps; this was taken from the other thread, plenty of actual argumentation 
in that too, but I know most will not read for length.

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