On 13/03/15 17:20, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > (ObWarning: no facts, just opinions.) > > I think the biggest problem we face, to be honest, is our conviction > that there's an answer out there and we just have to find it. > ...
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I think it's absolutely true that different people have different security needs, but I wonder if we can't make progress for an average person's use case. I'm recalling a message you wrote some months ago making the point that GnuPG is a cryptographic toolbox, but that it does not provide policy. That's one of the things I've been trying to get at with this project, writing guidelines for the people who participate on how they should use the tools. The goal is to simplify not just everyday things like how to make a key or encrypt an email, but also more complex things like "what is my identity and how do I verify it?" [1] I'm certain that this is not "the answer" for everyone's use case, and I also know that even if this Kickstarter project gets funded, the end result will be a small community, not a world-changing critical mass of people. But it might provide a collaborative place where we can test out a policy framework and see how well it performs for people who aren't as intimately familiar with the tools. That's the thing that excites me, and the thing that I think might make a difference. Because if the human rights worker in Syria wants to communicate securely with, say, an academic in the U.S., we have to figure out a simple way to introduce that person to the tools as well. [1]: https://github.com/josecastillo/signet/blob/master/guidelines.md#certification-and-trust -- Joey Castillo www.joeycastillo.com _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
