Why did Phil Zimmermann open source PGP?
The reason wasn’t necessarily to make it unstoppable and become a living legend among cypherpunks, but to get more peer review for his work and improve the code over time.
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I like PGP, and suggest it to people often, but lately I have been suggesting age as my defacto. Especially with rage (rust implementation) being available. https://github.com/str4d/rage
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