Hi Timur,<div><br></div><div>Your question is a bit above my paygrade, which is not hard considering that we all get paid zero dollars for our involvement... ;)</div><div><br></div><div>You cited a discussion from our user forum. I would suggest that you ask the question either at our <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev?lnk=srg">developers' forum</a></span> or live at our <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora-dev">developers' IRC</a> </span>chat channel. You can also write the founders at your convenience at <a href="mailto:daniel@joindiaspora.com">daniel@joindiaspora.com</a>, <a href="mailto:ilya@joindiaspora.com">ilya@joindiaspora.com</a>, and/or <a href="mailto:maxwell@joindiaspora.com">maxwell@joindiaspora.com</a>. They are all supportive of FreedomBox, but Ilya in particular is a FreedomBox evangelist ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>What I can tell you is that one of the principles by which our open-source developers abide is the following: Don't solve problems until they become problems. Given that, I suspect that they would provide full PGP encryption when lots of people started to run Diaspora* on their own Freedom Boxes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Yosem </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Timur Mehrvarz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:timur.mehrvarz@googlemail.com">timur.mehrvarz@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On 10/16/2011 11:41 AM, Yosem Companys wrote:<br>
> We're inspired by Eben Moglen<br>
> <a href="http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68512/" target="_blank">http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68512/</a>, so our<br>
> goals are consistent with FreedomBox.<br>
<br>
Hi Yosem,<br>
<br>
Diaspora* developers decided to NOT use PGP encryption, mainly because<br>
Diaspora* users would NOT usually own the server they are running on. Of<br>
course, people can not be advised to put their private keys on servers<br>
that are not under their control [1].<br>
<br>
But what if lots of people start running Diaspora* on their own little<br>
FreedomBoxes? How hard would it be to provide full PGP encryption for<br>
these users? My own "FreedomPod" should be able to talk PGP to other<br>
"FreedomPods" for which I got public keys. When talking to any other<br>
Diaspora* instance, the default encryption would be used. (Which could<br>
be phased out by the time everybody is running a FreedomBox. Partly<br>
kidding.)<br>
<br>
Kind regards,<br>
Timur<br>
<br>
[1] Pretty Good Diaspora:<br>
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e9fa0db196454a19/" target="_blank">http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e9fa0db196454a19/</a><br>
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