Op-ed: I’m throwing in the towel on PGP, and I work in security

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After years of wrestling with GnuPG with varying levels of enthusiasm, I came to the conclusion that it’s just not worth it, and I’m giving up—at least on the concept of long-term PGP keys. This editorial is not about the gpg tool itself, or about tools at all. Many others have already written about that. It’s about the long-term PGP key model—be it secured by Web of Trust, fingerprints or Trust on First Use—and how it failed me.

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Story added 12. December 2016, content source with full text you can find at link above.