wait, what does this mean exactly? the stickman used their pgp private key to sign a text file that contains the girls public key? is this a taboo in the pgp world for some reason?
The joke here is that he has no idea who this girl is and yet he still signed her key. This is dangerous, because he is vouching for her identity. If he is mistaken, this could result in a serious loss of credibility on his part.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/364:_Responsible_Behavior
ExplainXKCD...because I'm not smart.
Signing the key was certifying that anyone who knows him should trust her - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
Ahh, the good old useless green pepper of GIMP.
Green is my pepper... If you know what I mean... 😏
...I don't actually know what you mean, if you know what I mean.
Wake me up when GPG has forward secrecy and or double ratchet.
What kind of monster uses RSA3072
I always wonder how do people get that green pepper image. Is it in gimp or smth.
It's gimp
Knew it
Oh no. Can we please stop pushing (Open)PGP / GPG?
Why?
I'm guessing because it was more of a 70s hippy idea: free sharing of love, drugs and cryptographic keys
Because expertie-experts dislike it while not providing any alternative? No.
Here are some alternatives, depending on your use-case: https://soatok.blog/2024/11/15/what-to-use-instead-of-pgp/
