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noncomltoday at 12:48 AM2 repliesview on HN

How would GPG help? GPG is as safe as your private key is. If someone gets "hacks you" and gets access to your private key, it's over


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mr_mitmtoday at 3:10 PM

GPG keys are typically guarded much better than emails, that's the whole point. Accessing e-mails can be done by guessing a password, to get to the key you basically need command execution on the target's client system.