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

John Kreznar <jek@ininx.com> Thu, 26 March 2015 06:42 UTC

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From: John Kreznar <jek@ininx.com>
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Subject: Re: [openpgp] Manifesto - who is the new OpenPGP for?
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Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 22:56 -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: 
>> Web of Trust is a fine academic
>> theory but it is not how OpenPGP is really used in the real world.
> Lol?
> How else do you use it?

Speaking as a PGP user of over 20 years, I can say that I've NEVER used
the web of trust.  The way I really use it is to exchange keys with a
correspondent in plain text and confirm fingerprints out of band.

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OpenPGP key: http://ininx.com
 John E. Kreznar jek@ininx.com 9F1148454619A5F08550 705961A47CC541AFEF13

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