Re:Signal Desktop
by treve on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @03:37PM
(#10665619)
I've been actively using PGP for about 2 years with a few friends that all use keybase, but I still don't feel like I really know what I'm doing, or if I'm really doing the right thing. A lot of the terminology and best practices I learned while first setting it up are lost on me now. It still works though! Well, somewhat... since I switched to KDE thunderbird no longer remembers my pgp password. I miss the gnome keyring.
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70% of the UX complaints people have about PGP stem from the huge number of options it has and the lack of guidance it gives you for which options matter.
Which is a shame, because none of the options actually matter.
If you're encrypting messages to a public key, and not with a passphrase, and you're signing the messages you encrypt, you're getting 98% of the value PGP has to offer.
If you want to do things more advanced than that, you probably shouldn't use PGP. PGP has lots of advanced options, but it lacks a lot of fundamental features you'd want from a secure messaging system.
But for the basic use case it supports without options, PGP is just fine.