Hi Timur, Your question is a bit above my paygrade, which is not hard considering that we all get paid zero dollars for our involvement... ;)
You cited a discussion from our user forum. I would suggest that you ask the question either at our developers' forum<http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-dev?lnk=srg> or live at our developers' IRC<http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=diaspora-dev> chat channel. You can also write the founders at your convenience at [email protected], [email protected], and/or [email protected]. They are all supportive of FreedomBox, but Ilya in particular is a FreedomBox evangelist ;) 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. Best, Yosem On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Timur Mehrvarz < [email protected]> wrote: > On 10/16/2011 11:41 AM, Yosem Companys wrote: > > We're inspired by Eben Moglen > > http://nymag.com/news/features/establishments/68512/, so our > > goals are consistent with FreedomBox. > > Hi Yosem, > > Diaspora* developers decided to NOT use PGP encryption, mainly because > Diaspora* users would NOT usually own the server they are running on. Of > course, people can not be advised to put their private keys on servers > that are not under their control [1]. > > But what if lots of people start running Diaspora* on their own little > FreedomBoxes? How hard would it be to provide full PGP encryption for > these users? My own "FreedomPod" should be able to talk PGP to other > "FreedomPods" for which I got public keys. When talking to any other > Diaspora* instance, the default encryption would be used. (Which could > be phased out by the time everybody is running a FreedomBox. Partly > kidding.) > > Kind regards, > Timur > > [1] Pretty Good Diaspora: > > http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-discuss/browse_thread/thread/e9fa0db196454a19/ >
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