The creator of PGP has moved his mobile-encryption firm Silent Circle to Switzerland to be free of US mass surveillance. Here he explains why. [...] “Every dystopian society has excessive surveillance, but now we see even western democracies like the US and England moving that way,” he warns. “We have to roll this back. People who are not suspected of committing crimes should not have information collected and stored in a database. We don’t want to become like North Korea.” [...] Today, his biggest worry is not software backdoors, but the petabytes (1m gigabytes) of information being hoarded by the likes of Google and Facebook. “If you collect all that data, it becomes an attractive nuisance. It’s kind of a siren calling out inviting someone to come and try to get it. Governments say that if private industry can have it, why can’t our intelligence agencies have it?”

"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," the researcher wrote in a blog post. "It's time for PGP to die."

Pour chiffrer ses mails, il existe deux standards de chiffrement, PGP/MIME ou PGP/Inline.

The text concludes mentioning some of the existing alternatives, so, again, this is NOT about not using encryption as some critics like to presume!!!

Don’t use pgp.mit.edu¶

pgp.mit.edu as a keyserver has been broken for years, especially with certain types of key updates. For a long time subkey updates, key expiration changes, revocations and other important information that you may wish to communicate to others, they were dropping on the floor.

They changed their software somewhat recently to a better supported keyserver, but it is still broken in ways that make it so it isn’t getting updates.

Chiffrer tout ce qui passe à travers votre smartphone. C'est le pari de Silent Circle, dont l'un des fondateurs, Philip Zimmermann, n'est autre que le célèbre pionnier en matière de protection de la vie privée - créateur du logiciel de chiffrement PGP. Nous l'avons interviewé.