Well, they still can’t underfund gnu privacy guard :-) It’s pretty much already finished product and working pretty well.
Comment on European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
The money is needed for funding the police to implement chat control’s and going dark’s enforcement.
endofline@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Eh? I tried it about a year ago, and I found all the same clunky problems that were there 20 years ago.
endofline@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
clunky
Thunderbird + kleopatra? K-9 + OpenKeyChain ( android )? Where did you have issues?
frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
I went through an exercise with a few other developers to see if we could use it for transferring sensitive information. I was using Windows w/WSL2 at the time (now I’m full Linux for my work machine), and I believe the other two were on Macs.
Our conclusions were that while it might be useful alongside other ways, it was too clunky to use in general. One of the more useful things we could do is have developers sign git commits.
The email plugins for various clients make it easy to mistakenly think you’re sending an encrypted email. When even technical people are making this mistake, then it’s a big issue for widespread adoption. The plugins also don’t always send it in a format that works for every client out there. We found the most consistent way was to encrypt the message in a file and attach it to the email.
The plugins don’t work with modern webmail, anyway.
Public key servers are unreliable. They’re largely maintained by volunteers, so this is understandable, but we couldn’t recommend that the company use them. If we wanted reliability, we’d need to run our own internal keysever.
Then there’s the key signing meetings we’d need to have. Even technical people find these a bother. These are, unfortunately, inherent to the web of trust model.
I really wanted to make it work. The decentralized nature of the web of trust–as opposed to the hierarchical model of TLS–is appealing to me personally. But this shit hasn’t gotten better in 20 years.
nadir@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Read about this on the site of the garage project. they apparently wouldn’t be a thing without this funding.
Recently set up a cluster and it’s great. Sad to hear this went through
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Even sadder:
pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Very big brain moment aktschualluy. The AI will start maintaining all the dropped projects!
frezik@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Oh, for fucks sake.
polle@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Lol, whyyyyyyyYYYYYYYY.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kill bots