It's time for PGP to die, says ... no, not the NSA – a US crypto prof

By John Leyden, 14 Aug 2014
 
A senior cryptographer has sparked debate after calling time on PGP – the gold standard for email and document encryption.
Matthew Green is an assistant research professor who lectures in computer science and cryptography at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, US. This week, on his personal blog, he argued that it's "time for PGP to die", describing it as "downright unpleasant". He wrote:
 Part of the problem lies in the nature of PGP public keys themselves. For historical reasons they tend to be large and contain lots of extraneous information, which it difficult to print them a business card or manually compare. You can write this off to a quirk of older technology, but even modern elliptic curve implementations still produce surprisingly large keys.
 
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