What Moxie Marlinspike thinks about open source
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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1 dated position, 2015, in their own words. Our reading of what Moxie Marlinspike has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our reading · no longer heldGPG is a failed experiment and will not be the thing that brings end-to-end encryption to ordinary people.
Recalls holdingIn 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.
SaidGPG 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.