Moxie Marlinspike
Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal, the encrypted messenger whose protocol now protects messages in WhatsApp and Google Messages as well. He stepped down as Signal’s CEO in 2022 and writes occasionally at moxie.org.
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backIn the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I’m still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.
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Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsGPG isn’t the thing that’s going to take us to ubiquitous end to end encryption, and if it were, it’d be kind of a shame to finally get there with 1990’s cryptography.