Re: gpg 1.4

"Robert J. Hansen via Gnupg-users" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.gpg.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Perhaps architects of software such as gnupg should pay more
> attention to the postulate expressed by Ben Laurie and
> Abe Singer in their "...Red Pill and the Blue Pill" paper:

There are a few different responses here:

* If a Google cryptographer says "hey, let's solve this hard problem by 
getting into the hardware business!", that's great: Google has the fab 
lines to do this if they want. GnuPG lacks a fab plant. You're literally 
trying to put the devs on a guilt trip for being a small FOSS project 
that doesn't have billions of dollars to throw at R&D prototypes like 
the Nebuchadnezzar device. This is not a good look.

* For users who need trusted devices, GnuPG offers smartcard support. 
Buy a Yubikey or an OpenPGP card and have fun.

* Google themselves are not jumping on the idea of a Nebuchadnezzar 
device. Why should GnuPG?

* If anyone was to deploy something like this it would be Western 
intelligence agencies. I'm unaware of any RFPs for such a product. Maybe 
there is one and I don't know about it, but ... if Fort Meade isn't 
jumping on this and Google's not jumping on this, I'm going to ask the 
important question of "why aren't they?"

_______________________________________________
Gnupg-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
OpenPGP_signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, 236 B)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----

wnsEABYIACMWIQR9jsS4W2/t1sENPHkeepTU6H+R1QUCaWglNQUDAAAAAAAKCRAeepTU6H+R1aUg
AP9QhRqF7bGDa3W9uY5FyOwsttc+imPN5Cj4FsfizkIcdgD/Yhuf6EnJcTn9aiZTgTipl2KkjSx8
Oz6ef31FLzoWKAk=
=Cvp9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.