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?”
Both the pacman package manager and the makepkg tool for building packages verify files using PGP signatures. However, these two pieces of software do it using different keyrings. There seems to be a lot of confusion about this and misinformation is spreading at a rapid pace, so I’ll attempt to clarify it here!
"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."
There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.
Pour chiffrer ses mails, il existe deux standards de chiffrement, PGP/MIME ou PGP/Inline.
I’m thrilled to see so many more reporters using PGP, and putting their PGP key in their Twitter bios. The options to securely contact a reporter are tremendously increased over a year ago. However, not everyone is sharing their key in the safest way possible. I’d like to recommend that you tweet the fingerprint (not the shorter key id) of your PGP key.
The text concludes mentioning some of the existing alternatives, so, again, this is NOT about not using encryption as some critics like to presume!!!
Pour Phil Zimmermann, créateur de PGP, l’email a fait son temps
https://www.pcinpact.com/news/81753-pour-phil-zimmermann-createur-pgp-l-email-a-fait-son-temps.htm
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.
This was once just a page that contained my public encryption key. It has now grown to become an introduction to how and why to use the GNU Privacy Guard encryption software (GPG) to protect your privacy. It is continually growing. If you have questions, corrections, suggestions, locations for tools or servers, or GPG-related interesting stuff, please contact Alan Eliasen. Thanks!
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.