It is unuseful to people with threat models that allow for entrusting their social graph to centralized identity systems managed by centrally controlled software supply chains that any compromised insider could manipulate.
For me and thousands of other Linux distro maintainers that maintain the core software supply chains and infrastructure that runs the internet, we cannot afford centralized trust graphs. Nothing else comes close to solving the problems PGP solves.
That is why it is an active IETF standard with modern cryptography and several actively maintained and widely used implementations.
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Like I said: this is to cryptographic identity what the one-time pad is to message encryption. Simple and unuseful.
It is unuseful to people with threat models that allow for entrusting their social graph to centralized identity systems managed by centrally controlled software supply chains that any compromised insider could manipulate.
For me and thousands of other Linux distro maintainers that maintain the core software supply chains and infrastructure that runs the internet, we cannot afford centralized trust graphs. Nothing else comes close to solving the problems PGP solves.
That is why it is an active IETF standard with modern cryptography and several actively maintained and widely used implementations.