It seems like without fail, whenever PGP is mentioned, someone is ready to offer criticism of it, usually without offering a better alternative, since one doesn't really exist.
Yet it is the most stable, the most open, the most proven, and the most supported PKI technology, supporting both encryption and signatures.
I found GnuPG and OpenPGP.js are incredibly easy to integrate into my project. I didn't like the current ways that it is used, so I designed a new way, with disposable private keys, which frees the user from key management burdens. I don't use many of PGP's features which I don't need, such as key management and nested keys.
PGP is still an incredible standard and technology, the rare kind that's remained supported and (mostly) backwards-compatible for 25+ years, like HTML and Perl.
I'm glad it exists, and I anticipate it being useful for at least another 25, thanks to the Lindy Effect.
Yet it is the most stable, the most open, the most proven, and the most supported PKI technology, supporting both encryption and signatures.
I found GnuPG and OpenPGP.js are incredibly easy to integrate into my project. I didn't like the current ways that it is used, so I designed a new way, with disposable private keys, which frees the user from key management burdens. I don't use many of PGP's features which I don't need, such as key management and nested keys.
PGP is still an incredible standard and technology, the rare kind that's remained supported and (mostly) backwards-compatible for 25+ years, like HTML and Perl.
I'm glad it exists, and I anticipate it being useful for at least another 25, thanks to the Lindy Effect.