From PC Mag: The developer of the Signal encrypted-messaging app offered a two-part lesson at Black Hat 2024: Software may be today’s magic, but you still need to know for whom you’ve waving your magic wand.
And with other developers of early encryption apps, Moxie Marlinspike made the mistake of thinking that his users were other wizards.
"What we were going to do was develop really powerful tools for ourselves and teach everybody to be like us,” he told Black Hat founder Jeff Moss in an onstage conversation Thursday morning. “And that is not going to work.”
Marlinspike brought up Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), a set of encryption tools first shipped in 1991. PGP was many people’s first experience with encrypted messaging—and their last for years after butting heads with its arcane user experience.
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