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Comment by Natanael_L

You need a private PKI, not keyring. They're subtly different - a PKI can handle key rotation, etc.

Yes there aren't a lot of good options for that. If you're using something like a Microsoft software stack with active directory or similar identity/account management then there's usually some PKI support in there to anchor to.

Across organisations, there's really very very few good solutions. GPG specifically is much too insecure when you need to receive messages from untrusted senders. There's basically S/MIME which have comparable security issues, then we have AD federation or Matrix.org with a server per org.

> You could say, we do not need gpg, because we control the mailserver, but what if a mailserver is compromised and the mails are still in mailboxes?

How are you handling the keys? This is only true if user's protect their own keypairs with strong passwords / yubikey applet, etc.

parent Natanael_L 10 months ago

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