Re:The Dream of Usable Email Encryption Is Still a Work in P...
by atmosx on Sunday March 27, 2016 @03:01PM
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> Making existing non-seamless cryptography (PGP) functional enough that it can be used in exceptional cases.
Hm, I don't believe it's a technical problem, although it's a recurrent theme among techies. PGP is hard to explain to someone who didn't spend the time to digest certain concepts but installing GPGTools on your mac, generating a key and using it is not hard, nor complicated... You can even store the passphrase in the keychain.
I believe that most people using email don't feel there's any added value in using GPG, that's all. This might change in the future, but we're not there yet.
Hm, I don't believe it's a technical problem, although it's a recurrent theme among techies. PGP is hard to explain to someone who didn't spend the time to digest certain concepts but installing GPGTools on your mac, generating a key and using it is not hard, nor complicated... You can even store the passphrase in the keychain.
I believe that most people using email don't feel there's any added value in using GPG, that's all. This might change in the future, but we're not there yet.