• CaptObvious@literature.cafe
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    12 hours ago

    I hear you about going back to analog. The problem in the States is that Republicans have managed to gut the postal service and drive up its prices so that normal people can’t afford it. Electronic communication is all they can afford.

    PGP encrypts and decrypts locally. Your private keys never leave your device. Public keys are meant to be shared widely, but without the private key, anyone who intercepts the message has exactly a block of encrypted text and no way to read it.

    • sanity_is_maddening@piefed.social
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      11 hours ago

      Oh, thank you very much for explaining that. I apologised for my ignorance in advance because I didn’t know what was the difference in the encryption process regarding PGP.

      Now we just have to know if they get Chat Control in motion in the EU if they will ban PGP as an encryption method. The UK enacted the child safety’s act and VPN usage exploded. So they enforced age verification on VPN as well. We’re in a stronghold moment all over the world, where the powers are overreaching and “strangling” people’s rights and social freedoms.

      But thank you again for the clarification.