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| author | Nicholas Johnson <nick@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2023-03-17 00:00:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Johnson <nick@nicholasjohnson.ch> | 2023-03-17 00:00:00 +0000 |
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Correct information about NIST curves
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diff --git a/content/entry/goodbye-pgp.md b/content/entry/goodbye-pgp.md index 3d76a9f..9d5d846 100644 --- a/content/entry/goodbye-pgp.md +++ b/content/entry/goodbye-pgp.md @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ To protect your contact list from the keyserver, you have to install [Parcimonie Hopefully all your contacts use Parcimonie too. Otherwise they leak their association with you every time they pull your key. Probably less than 1% of GPG users use it, so your whole keyring is still being leaked no matter what. Sorry. ## Broken Crypto -[PGP also supports the NIST and Brainpool elliptic curves which many security experts believe are backdoored.](https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/) It shouldn't support those curves in the first place. At the very least, GPG should warn users, but it doesn't. +[PGP also supports the NIST elliptic curves, which are potentially backdoored depending on which expert you ask.](https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/rigid.html) OpenPGP sacrifices security in the name of backwards-compatibility and standards compliance. It supports broken/outdated algorithms like SHA-1, 3DES, CAST5, and Blowfish. It uses CFB mode and S2K password hashing, which no modern cryptosystem should use. |