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  • Callas Responds to Green's Criticisms

    <p> A few days ago, Matthew Green, the widely respected cryptographer and research professor at Johns Hopkins University launched a broadside against PGP. In summary, Green said, &amp;ldquo;The problem with this is that, for all the good PGP has done in the past, its a model of email encryption thats fundamentally brokenrdquo; Further Green said PGP keys suck, PGP key management sucks and that that there is no forward secrecy. <a href="http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/whats-matter-with-pgp.html" target="_blank">His blog post adds more criticisms</a> and also attempts to find some solutions.</p>

    David Heath | 27 Aug | Read more