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[–] msage@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Sorry for blowing this on you, but fuck blockchain, fuck NFTs.

What we need is better understanding of cryptography.

PGP has solved this problems decades ago, and crypto has just borrowed some parts, but made it worse in every possible way and into incomprehensible depths.

Again, fuck crypto, fuck NFTs.

I should make a guide on how to use GPG.

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I thought GPG was bad? I don't have enough personal experience with it to quickly summarize or opine on the merits of either of these two articles, but:

The PGP Problem: https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem

What To Use Instead of PGP: https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/

I do agree with "fuck NFTs" though, and mostly agree with "fuck cryptocurrency" (mostly because porn and drugs are in my view legitimate use cases for at least a hypothetical non-environmentally-destructive cryptocurrency).

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[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

It's not good.

But it's leagues better than crypto.

I hate typing 'asymmetric key cryptography', and GPG is just three letters.

Those blog posts explain a lot, but one use case is missing (at least I don't see it apart from git commit signing), and that is verifying the source of a public message.

And I do wish we tried using the private keys more. Specially now when anyone can deepfake anything.

If I ever release my nudes, never trust them unless they are signed and you can check them with public key in my profile.

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