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Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by anowlcalledjosh »

pmlnr wrote: post #130
henryboldi wrote: post #9

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Once your key is generated you can click the 'copy' icon to the right of your name in the header. After that you can share the key on any platform you like, including Keybase.io :)

keybase.io... right. I've been waiting for an invite letter for a year. Please stop referring to non publicly open platforms as they were actually usable. There is keys.gnupg.net, pool.sks-keyservers.net, pgp.mit.edu, etc. These are the well-known ones that had been around for a while.

If you ask on /r/keybase you should get an invite pretty quickly, or check to see if there are any people offering invites. Currently I see at least 39 available.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by startling »

mysterypie wrote: post #86
jackweirdy wrote: post #28

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Nor does it help the cause of explaining to the general public that encryption is something they do use and should use in their own lives.

An "edgy" name can get you in real trouble. The brilliant programmer Dan Farmer [1] who developed the security tool that he named SATAN [2] was fired from his job when he published his program. If you haven't heard of SATAN, it was the most important network security analysis tool in the late 1990s. I feel certain that the name was the critical factor that made his company so nervous. For a while he had two different…

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman...

> The Web site Serge had used (which has the word “subversion” in its name) as well as the location of its server (Germany) McSwain clearly found highly suspicious.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by cyphar »

brashrat wrote: post #170
cyphar wrote: post #165

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Ignoring the arrogance, "If you have nothing to hide" isn't a valid question because everyone has something to hide. People have curtains and doors for good reasons, and everyone expects a certain amount of privacy in their lives -- but they don't realise how much they care about it until after they get screwed. Oh, and it's not a slippery slope fallacy if we literally are headed towards 1984. Not even Orwell thought…

no slippery slope argument is a fallacy when the underlying process can best be described as a slippery slope. "Slippery slope" is not a fallacy, it's an analogy. I'm in favor of crypto, privacy and the same things you are... I just don't lie about it: criminals are more interested in crypto than the average citizen, so are kiddy pornographers (for those of you who don't think that's a crime). So are "chinese disside…

> criminals are more interested in crypto than the average citizen

That is the problem that should be solved. Everyone should be interested in crypto. You're just spouting arrogance and irrelevant information.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by centizen »

masukomi wrote: post #29
jackweirdy wrote: post #28

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Nor does it help the cause of explaining to the general public that encryption is something they do use and should use in their own lives.

Absolutely horrible choice of a name. There's so much BS regarding the use of encryption and it keeps coming up in criminal cases, that normal folks are going to avoid using a think that might somehow be linked with a felony.

And it seems the author is refusing to even have a discussion on the name choice, closing any issues that are opened to address it without comment.

What a great missed opportunity...

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by tzakrajs »

1209102312 wrote: post #159
tzakrajs wrote: post #149

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What it could achieve is a clone that simply replaces the names and requires very little maintenance. If the community agrees and adopts, then politeness be damned. Edit: To put the converse: If it's a shitty idea, then no one will use it and it didn't matter that you were polite anyways.

Parasitic attitudes like this one drive away original authors. There should be a license to exclude assholes from using open source.

You should create it, you probably know best how to write it.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by rmchugh »

petre wrote: post #114
peterbonney wrote: post #68

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In that famous Goldman Sachs "theft" case, use of a tool called "Subversion" (which any IT person knows is just vanilla version control software) was taken by the FBI as evidence of malicious intent. Just saying.

Just call it Line Noise, Static, or something. No malicious intent in that.

Static is a great name.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by pritambaral »

lllorddino wrote: post #167

Or you could just use the terminal like any sane person. This is how to encrypt a message using someones public key ready? gpg -r pubkeyidhere -e filetoencrypthere.txt Honestly if you can't work a terminal you shouldn't be left around encryption.

You shouldn't have to work in a terminal to be able to use HTTPS's security assurance.

This sort of mentality is a hindrance to getting encryption out there to the common person and making it common place in communication

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by mathiasrw »

SNvD7vEJ wrote: post #93
henryboldi wrote: post #2

Hi I'm Henry, the creator of Felony I’ve had a passion for politics, history, and programming since the age of 12 growing up in a suburb of Chicago. During my freshman year, I developed an interest in software. A couple of apps and hackathons (programming competitions) later, I was working on my own startups when I made the leap to drop out of high school to become a software engineer at a venture-backed tech startup…

Please change the name of the app. I'm Swedish, and to me the name sounds really repelling. Maybe someone could fork the application and rename it to something cool that I can use?

What do you think the app should be named?

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by fabiom »

cyphar wrote: post #163
iancarroll wrote: post #120

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PGP is a great choice when you want to be able to send encrypted messages over any channel you want. It sounds like you do not understand how PGP works -- you exchange public keys over a trusted medium and then use public key cryptography to encrypt the AES key used to encrypt the rest of the message. The OpenPGP library it uses has been audited (twice). Most of the mistakes that could have be made are avoided this w…

> PGP is a great choice when you want to be able to send encrypted messages over any channel you want. That has nothing to do with PGP. You could do the same by base64-ing an OTR session (in fact, people do that all the time). I don't like the choice of PGP because it has non-repudability. If you send me a message, I can prove to anyone in the world that you sent me the message. OTR and Axolotl don't have this proble…

> If you send me a message, I can prove to anyone in the world that you sent me the message.

Only if you sign the message, right? But you can use PGP to send encrypted messages without signing them.

Re: Felony – An open-source PGP keychain

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Post by mathiasrw »

henryboldi wrote: post #43
croon wrote: post #41

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Agreed. I understand the choice, but for the same effect at least pick "no felony" or "NotAFelony" or "Constitutional" just to hope that it gets debated in court whether "Constitutional" is illegal and used by IS*.

I don't think "no felony" has the same ring to it though! ;)

I suggest "Nofello"
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