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50 from 4 Dec 2019 to 21 Aug 2026
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2026 9

  1. Legacy Encryption Downgrade Attacks against LibrePGP and CMS: Some Comments
  2. Keys.openpgp.org Breaks Your Keys
  3. Principles of the OpenPGP SEIP (OCFB-MDC) and SE (OCFB) Block Cipher Modes
  4. When the GDPR Seems to Prevent an Entire Technology
  5. PGP Key Expiry is a Usability Nightmare
  6. I am a PGP FAN
  7. Doku
  8. Log In
  9. Encrypt Once

2025 4

  1. Forward Secrecy
  2. The Why of PGP Authentication
  3. Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Brief Discussion
  4. End to End Encrypted Messaging in the News: An Editorial Usability Case Study

2024 9

  1. 2048 Bit RSA and the Year 2030
  2. Proposed New OpenPGP Cipher Block Modes Could Cause an Interoperability Disaster
  3. About the "OpenPGP Schism" (2023 Dec)
  4. Problems caused by new OpenPGP authenticated encryption modes
  5. Seriously, stop using RSA: comments
  6. The OpenPGP Modification Detection Code is Actually Good
  7. Misleading Legends Caused by EFAIL
  8. The PGP Problem: A Critique
  9. Replacing the OpenPGP Encryption Mode is Harmful and Pointless

2023 6

  1. On the Use of Theoretical Cryptography Jargon in Casual Conversation
  2. 2048 bit RSA Keys
  3. Doku
  4. Surreptitious Forwarding
  5. The Cryptographic Doom Principle: Some Observations
  6. Authenticated Encryption

2022 5

  1. OpenPGP's Improved Cipher Feedback Mode (OCFB)
  2. Oracle Attack Immunity
  3. The EFAIL Hoax
  4. Cipher Feedback; a Paean
  5. What’s the matter with PGP? ― Some Comments

2021 10

  1. Message Burning in Encrypted Messaging
  2. The Envelope Subject
  3. Email is Reasonably Anonymous
  4. PGP is a Form of Minimalism
  5. Deniability
  6. OpenPGP Identity Structure
  7. Certify Once
  8. Signed Anonymous Messages
  9. Anonymous Encrypted Messages
  10. Encrypted Email is More Secure than Encrypted Instant Messaging

2020 6

  1. Off the Record
  2. Downgrade Attack Immunity
  3. Email Clients
  4. SMTP STARTTLS
  5. The MD5 Story
  6. Could Age Replace OpenPGP?

2019 1

  1. A Demonstration of Message Burning Through Encryption using GnuPG