[Discuss] Relevance of PGP?

[feenberg at nber.org (Daniel Feenberg)]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, John Abreau wrote:

> At last year's annual BLU PGP keysigning, Alex Brennan gave his
> traditional talk,
> but as I recall he was somewhat disenchanted with PGP. If I'm remembering his
> statement correctly, he said something to the effect that PGP had been
> an important
> fight for our fundamental rights, but that we've already lost the
> fight, it's over, and it's
> no longer safe to use PGP in the current political climate in America.
>
> What does everyone think of this? We have traditionally held the BLU keysigning
> events every September. Should we continue to do so, or are most PGP users
> giving up PGP for fear of government persecution?

persecution for using PGP? You need to provide a reference for that. We 
have recently recieved CD-ROMs from government agencies encrypted with 
PGP, so I don't think the US government feels there is anything improper 
about PGP.

Daniel Feenberg

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