From Newsgroup: alt.privacy.anon-server

Nym Mail wrote:

Stefan Claas wrote:

The advantage of yubicrypt ove OpenPGP is:

1. No learning curve required and easier to use than Kleopatra.

2. Not writing to an SSD when writing and encrypting messages.

3. One recipient only, like with postcards or letter writing,
so that the message is not encrypted to third-parties.

4. No metadata in encrypted payloads, like in OpenPGP, where you
have to use tricks, which won't work in Kleopatra.

5. A YubiKey is mandatory, so that yubicrypt users know that their
communication partners take security of private keys serious.

6. Key pair generation with Yubico Authenticator is easy and it
does not required key-id's like in OpenPGP with a full name
and email address etc. A nickname for the CN field is enough.

7. yubicrypt is aimed at elderly people, non-tech people or people
with a disability, which do not like the high learning curve of
OpenPGP.

8. public yubicrypt certificate filenames can be anything, like a
nickname etc. with the extension .crt.

9. yubicrypt is a portable app, so you can use it in an Internet
Caf|- or public library etc., stored on a USB stick.

10. Optional message padding with 4KB blocks (ISO conform),
so that third-parties can not guess the length of the message
content.

11. No "kindergarden" old fashioned WoT, as yubicrypt users
in the EU can eIDAS certify their public yubikey encryption
or signing certificate. See:

<https://github.com/Ch1ffr3punk/yubicrypt/releases/download/v0.2.0/yubisigner-signing-certificate-eIDAS-certified.pdf>

12. Collecting of public keys not required when verifying signatures.
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