On 17 Jul 2019, at 05:05, Robert J. Hansen <r...@sixdemonbag.org> wrote:

> But all in all?  It's a good criticism.

Indeed. Backwards compatibility with the 1990s is an albatross. Anyone still 
using obsolete ciphers is screwed anyway, so why encourage it?

Some nitpicking:

* Modern PGP does encrypt subjects (although not other metadata).

* Magic wormhole is an excellent toy, but it’s written in python, so literally 
the *first person* I tested it with got his dependency stack shredded. I think 
he’s forgiven me but he hasn’t used it since. The line about rewriting wormhole 
in a decent language may look throwaway but it’s not.

* Similarly, the alternative archiving software suggested is still a work in 
progress. It’s all very well criticising PGP for being a clumsy jack of all 
trades, but “modern crypto” has had twenty years to replace it and still hasn’t 
fully succeeded. This isn’t just on PGP. 

* And finally: “don’t encrypt email”? Yes, well. Email is not going away. Just 
like passwords, its death has been long anticipated, yet never arrives. So what 
do we do in the meantime?

But yes. 

A

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