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Re:Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption u... by _yp on Friday July 08, 2016 @06:23PM (#12059021)
PGP has failed to provide "encryption for the masses".
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Re:Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption u... by cyphar on Saturday July 09, 2016 @09:33AM (#12061250)
PGP fills a niche that OTR and Axolotl do not. It provides a bunch of operations that are not supported by OTR (anything that requires signatures that are verifiable by third parties). PGP is used by the masses (package signatures and similar functions), it's just that they don't use PGP for communication.
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