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A new wave of spamming attacks on a core component of PGP's ecosystem has highlighted a fundamental weakness in the whole ecosystem.
I'm a proponent of end-to-end encryption for both email and phone calls, and PGP is a key part of that capability. This attack might be from a government actor or a large NGO, depending on the number of keys that were used: creating them is "computationally intensive," and unless the attacks were conducted with a very limited set of keys, only major players have the computing horsepower.
Bill Horne Moderator