I once had a chat with a security professor who had decided to try to get his group to use encrypted email for all of their communications. And they just couldn't get mailing lists working right with encrypted email.
replyThe sender has to encrypt with everyones individual key wonder why he couldn't get it to work.
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replyIn general, a session/thread ephemeral key pair is exchanged with the participants, and only each users private origin signing validates each sender sections. Since the signatures are passively checked, it does not need redone after each append operation.
replyThus, participants are pooled under 1 time constrained key exchange, participants sections origins are signed/time-stamped, and the ciphertext expires on a schedule.
Why? so at some future time side-channel key exfiltration can't be used to data mine the entire history of past tapped conversations/ciphertext. Even if a private signing key is stolen, it is difficult to rebuild the lost ephemeral key session.
Have a nice day. =3
My eyes glazed over reading that. I feel like 30 years of internet has proven one thing: the simplest solution always wins. PGP is many things, but simple and obvious are not among them.
replyMozilla Thunderbird e-mail client, and Android k9 mail makes pgp/gpg public key handling fairly trivial.
replyDepends what you do, and if your organization has a persistent clown infestation. Some big business folks still use email as a human to API interface.
Running out-of-band public keychains is not something most people will ever need. =3
Please, enlighten me on how you used PGP where calling it hard to use is so far from the truth. ProtonMail only works if you send messages to another ProtonMail user. It does not protect you when you email someone else.
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