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Re:I'm giving up on PGP by smhost on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:07AM (#13115607)
The standard for adoptability isn't the average person at their peak hours of attention and focus. It's the drunk teenager at 2 in the morning fumbling around in the dark.
Re:I'm giving up on PGP by dublinben on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:31AM (#13115863)
A functional WoT should be no more difficult to use than managing your Facebook friends or contacts on your phone. Neither of those are difficult tasks, and are achieved by normal users every day.
Re:I'm giving up on PGP by jahewson on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:24PM (#13116369)
Yeah I'm sure it's ridiculously simple and all the experts here saying it looks like the idea itself is fundamentally flawed are wrong.
Re:I'm giving up on PGP by dublinben on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:28PM (#13116409)
I never said it was simple, and nobody is. It's clearly not a simple problem, or we'd have a better solution by now!
Re:I'm giving up on PGP by at612 on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @05:52PM (#13118989)
> all the experts here

Which experts? And what are those fundamental flaws?

Re:I'm giving up on PGP by sigsergv on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @01:30AM (#13120868)
What is a “functional WoT”? The main trouble here: it's a really hard conceptually, if you delegate that hardness to 3rd party you will completely lose WoT essence.
Re:I'm giving up on PGP by gvb on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @12:29PM (#13116417)
You might want to reconsider your analogy. When I was a drunk teenager at 2 in the morning fumbling around in the dark, my attention and focus was at 110%!
Re:I'm giving up on PGP by bbcbasic on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @01:59PM (#13117260)
And you'd need to rely on a web of trust to avoid getting an infection.