"On darknet markets, a lot of vendors understand that using PGP is important because they spend a lot of time worried about being raided and sent to jail. End users don't understand this as much, so PGP usage varies for casual buyers." https://medium.com/@jbackus/minimum-viable-decentralization-d813dcf653fc … @backus
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I dunno, I feel like GnuPG is not so hardpic.twitter.com/HqzXkGB975
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Importing keys, generating my own keys, signing stuff, armor vs. binary output, then encrypting text that wasn't already a file. Granted, last time I tried it was many years ago. Maybe I'm a snowflake, but I still felt like the learning curve was kinda steep
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oof key management definitely sucks
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Yeah. This stuff is a hard problem too and something that has haunted privacy for a long time I think. One of the "silver linings for crypto-haters" I like to mention is that crypto/ICO hype may actually fund breakthroughs for thishttps://twitter.com/backus/status/1009286381682581504 …
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I remember trying a few different options before finally getting it to work. Its probably a good thing in some ways these markets take some real dedication to access.
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