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Re: Best practices for signature verifcation


From: kf503bla () duck com
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:21:16 -0500

then what do you suggest to use? i hear it all the time "pgp sucks" but what's the alternative huh?


In light of the recent GnuPG vulnerabilities, I remembered that OpenPGP
is almost never the right choice. CMS/PKCS#7 isn't any better, and
X.509 is also bad except that its extremely wide deployment in TLS
keeps it alive.

See https://www.latacora/com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/

and https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/.

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Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)


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