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Re: Agenda, security, and monitoring

2014-02-02 10:04:52
On Feb 2, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Scott Brim <scott(_dot_)brim(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:
Even if it's easy to use (and I'm grateful for enigmail and other
tools), PGP still has the problem of trust dilution.

Trust dilution really isn't a problem for most of the things you'd want to use 
PGP for if it were ubiquitous.   For the cases where it is, like bank 
transactions, stronger key validation is (a) needed and (b) possible, because 
its use cases provide the leverage needed to make it work.

The problem with PGP now is that it's _not_ ubiquitous, so the only thing you 
can use it for is use cases where you really need strong trust.