<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">FWIW it should be noted that OpenKeychain depends heavily on the Android sharing/intents architecture, which doesn’t quite have an exact analogue on many other platforms. Having said that, it’s getting *very* close to being easily civilian-usable. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The big problem currently is that to sign/decrypt, you have to enter your key passphrase, which is not really very practical on mobile. </div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">[Disclosure: Contributor to OpenKeychain]</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 10:48 AM, <a href="mailto:zaki@manian.org">zaki@manian.org</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zaki@manian.org" target="_blank">zaki@manian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all, this should be on interest to the group.<br><br>The OpenKeychain project has made enormous progress in the making usable PGP available on Android. It appears to be a great improvement over APG and the Guardian Project's GnuPG efforts on Android.<br>
<br>Obvious caveats about the fundamental insecurity of storing PGP keys on Android devices apply. Maybe there will be Yubikey support sometime in the future.<br><br>Summary of the 2.8 Release:<br><br><br></div><div><a href="http://www.openkeychain.org/openkeychain-2-8/" target="_blank">http://www.openkeychain.org/openkeychain-2-8/</a><br>
<br>OpenKeychain 2.8<br><br>A new stable version of OpenKeychain has been released!<br><br>Changelog 2.8<br><br>So many bugs have been fixed in this release that we focus on the main new features<br>Key edit: awesome new design, key revocation<br>
Key import: awesome new design, secure keyserver connections via hkps, keyserver resolving via DNS SRV records<br>New first time screen<br>New key creation screen: autocompletion of name and email based on your personal Android accounts<br>
File encryption: awesome new design, support for encrypting multiple files<br>New icons to show status of key (by Brennan Novak)<br>Important bug fix: Importing of large key collections from a file is now possible<br>Notification showing cached passphrases<br>
Keys are connected to Android's contacts</div>
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