Re:Signal Desktop
by tptacek on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @03:45PM
(#10665670)
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.
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.