Finally, Debian has ditched OpenPGP for repository signing in favor of Ed25519 with SHA512. This is a step ahead for privacy and security. You can see the article here.
As @anon123@lemmy.ml pointed out, the following issues about PGP are not specifically related to Debian article I linked.
- No authenticated encryption.
- Receiving a signed message means nothing about who sent it to you
- Usability issues with GnuPG
- Discoverability of public keys issue.
- Bad integration with emails.
- No forward secrecy.
There’s usuful documentation about it:
They ditched PGP because of Stallman and their politics.
Oof that’s just plain stupid
Please elaborate.
I am not sure what to tell, if you do not know about the RMS, FSF and the SJW reactionary controversy regarding disinformation claims of RMS supporting pedophilia.
Are you saying that they are removing GPG from debian apt due to GPG being a GNU project? Do you have any reason to believe that this is the case?
It sounds especially weird because the GPG maintainer, Werner Koch, is a member of the GNU assembly (see https://gnu.tools/en/people/) and he also signed the old anti-stallman open letter at https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/ so I really doubt that this is related to any anti-GNU policy.
It is a major reason, considering the kind of menacing push they tried with the open letter, being one of the leading organisations behind trying the cancel culture on RMS and all of his GNU projects.
You can look at the open letter and the RMS support letter, both will have some Debian devs, so this is a matter of nuances what you are trying to say here.
Hi. I didn’t know that. Nonetheless, the weaknesses i linked about PGP still remain. Since there are better alternatives, its not bad replace PGP when possible.
I doubt PGP is bad. It is used for email encryption and secure communications over Tor as well.
There is no doubt. Along with Whonix many cryptography experts pointed out the weaknesses of PGP, for example:
About email encryption:
Source.
All email clients with OpenPGP support that I am aware of encrypt the subject and have been doing so for years.
Forward secrecy is not a panacea.
This is misinformation. Rather it was only the GPG and the Kmail developers that handled the situation appropriately. (It was also not a vulnerability in GPG)
Yet he instead suggests signal which also leaks metadata and puts users in a much worse risk.
Hi, thank for your response. I understand your point; the issues I linked about PGP are not specifically related tod Debian article, I should have been more clear about it. Nonetheless, the weaknesses about PGP still remain.
The weakness about PGP still remains. Forward secrecy it’s not a panacea, but it’s a useful feature. The approach Is way better than PGP.
Even with OpenPGP support the subject of emails are not encrypted.
Can you elaborate please, maybe with source? As far as I understand signal minimize metadata
Forward secrecy is a panacea for emails. Emails do not work like instant messenger protocols.
ProtonMail is not an ideal example of encrypted email. If you could explain it with an email that allows custom PGP encryption, it would be a valid example.
Signal is most likely a government op, considering it has its servers exclusively in USA, which are governed by US CLOUD Act, and Elon Musk nd Snowden promoted Signal. Similar actions happened with Wire Messenger, which was in Switzerland before, but later moved to USA. Wire was also promoted by Snowden and others in the same fashion.
I understand your point. However, that’s why email are not recommended as secure way to send/receive messages. Email, even when encrypted leaks metadata and lacks security features like forward secrecy. Email was not created with security in mind.
As far as I know, ProtonMail is considered the gold standard. Even then, encrypt subject in email it’s not possible even with custom PGP encryption. However, maybe I’m wrong here. Glad to be corrected.
I’m sorry but this statement doesn’t prove anything. Just because it’s plausible and common sense ( I don’t think this is the case to be honest) it doesn’t mean its also the truth. Signal has a good end to end encryption protocol with minimization of metadata. There are no evidence of backdoors.
This is true, and I do say it often. But emails have a culture around them, see mailing list culture. XMPP is email 2.0 to me, and to people who understand these protocols.
ProtonMail is not a gold standard of anything except marketing. I am a R!seUp Collective member.
Signal does not necessarily have backdoors, but metadata issues. And metadata going through US servers is an issue if you start talking to strangers. Moxie says it is not an app made for anonymity, and this was said during the blocking of USA software in Iran.
With a lot of drawbacks (using it with multiple devices sucks) for too little gain and you can’t use it in non-interactive protocols such as OpenPGP. Or rather, you can if you do it manually, but it requires interaction.
Because Protonmail sucks. It works fine in Thunderbird.
I admit that it has been a while since I checked the signal protocol so I might be wrong. The page that you linked seems fine.
Even if protonMail sucks, email will always leaks meatada.
Source
Acutally, forward secrecy it’s very useful.
Source
Edited: wrong message.
Interesting. I know it is forward insecure, but this paper seems to be intriguing.