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

Falcon Darkstar Momot <falcon@iridiumlinux.org> Wed, 25 March 2015 08:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Manifesto - who is the new OpenPGP for?
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In all seriousness, attempts to create useability for any target
audience by committee are probably doomed (even though what we have now
is balked at even by a lot of security professionals).  PoC something first.

--Falcon Darkstar Momot
--Shadytel

On 24/03/2015 21:06, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> The Internet is for Everyone.
>
> 7.125 billion or go home.
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:17 PM, ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote:
>> 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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