Show Posts
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
you would be missed.by more people that you think 
We always do Don't give up!!
Ah, the Family grows
He actually is kind of right. GPG and PGP are really good, and you shouldn't be worried about using them for sensitive things. But they are using old algorithms. And they are not as advanced as they could be. Encrypted messaging systems could be significantly more user friendly and secure than GPG. OTR comes to mind as one such system. The problem with OTR is that it is quite weak to MITM attacks unless you know how to properly use it, and most people don't know how to. If you don't have a symmetrically encrypted database of 256 bit shared secrets, you probably are not using OTR to its full security potential.
Right now, all of the cutting edge implemented security systems are outdated compared to the state of the art in theory. There is actually an enormous gap between theory and practice, for anonymizers, for encryption, etc. We know of theoretical systems that are much better than most all of the systems actually being used in practice today. But none of them exist outside of the realm of academic whitepapers.
