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1. Why did you choose PGP, when we have OTR and Axolotl -- which are specifically designed for informal communication where repudiation (recipient Y not being able to prove to others that X sent the original message) matters.

2. How are the public keys securely distributed? You say that "a public key is like a username", but without a central authority you hit a lot of issues (essentially the CAP tradeoff, but for user IDs). And with a central authority, you have no trustworthiness. Or are the users just meant to find public keys themselves (in which case you're back to the current state of affairs).

3. The name choice is stupid. Why on earth would anyone sane in this political climate call an encryption program "Felony"?




As for #3 I would think that it makes fun of the idea that encryption is somehow a crime. That's how I read it at least.


I get the joke, it's just not funny. And literally nobody outside of our community would get the joke.




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