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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why is Satoshi Nakamoto's PGP Key not currently on bitcoin.org ?
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BitcoinFX
on 27/10/2020, 14:28:45 UTC
Do you think that it would be possible that in the future bitcoin address may replace PGP keys?
Not all PGP users are bitcoiner and the same way not all bitcoiner are familiar with PGP. PGP came long before bitcoin and I do not think satoshi ever thought that bitcoin will be such big. So for him PGP was more sense making than singing a bitcoin address.


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I am more comfortable in proving my identity using a bitcoin signed message than a PGP key. I use bitcoin addresses a lot but I barely used a PGP key. As you said it is safer, isn't it a good substitute?
I think PGP is not just for signing a message, another use case of PGP is that you can encrypt and decrypt a files.

Pretty Good Privacy
-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

GNU Privacy Guard
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard

Digital signature
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_signature

Electronic signatures and law
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_signatures_and_law

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New PGP key: RSA/RSA or DSA/Elgamal?
- https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/72581/new-pgp-key-rsa-rsa-or-dsa-elgamal