What’s the Matter With PGP?
As transparent and user-friendly as the new email extensions are, they’re fundamentally just re-implementations of OpenPGP -- and non-legacy-compatible ones, too. The problem with this is that, for all the good PGP has done in the past, it’s a model of email encryption that’s fundamentally broken.
It’s time for PGP to die.
In the remainder of this post I’m going to explain why this is so, what it means for the future of email encryption, and some of the things we should do about it.
