How does this help people who are not following this issue regularly? gpg protected Snowden, and this article promotes tools by one of the cryptographers who promoted non-hybrid encryption:

https://blog.cr.yp.to/20251004-weakened.html#agreement

So what to do? PGP by the way never claimed to prevent traffic analysis, mixmaster was the layer that somehow got dropped, unlike Tor.

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tptacek 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You could also say Cryptocat protected Snowden; he used it to communicate with reporters. So, that's how well that argument holds up.

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bgwalter an hour ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocat#Reception_and_usage

"In June 2013, Cryptocat was used by journalist Glenn Greenwald while in Hong Kong to meet NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden for the first time, after other encryption software failed to work."

So it was used when Snowden was already on the run, other software failed and the communication did not have to be confidential for the long term.

It would also be an indictment of messaging services as opposed to gpg. gpg has the advantage that there is no money in it, so there are unlikely to be industry or deep state shills.

	▲	tptacek 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Huh? There's no money in anything we're talking about here.

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