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Re:Why I Wrote PGP (1999) by jandrese on Sunday August 08, 2021 @03:24AM (#28104846)
Having to physically meet people to exchange long hex strings was never going to scale.
Re:Why I Wrote PGP (1999) by XorNot on Sunday August 08, 2021 @03:27AM (#28104857)
No but that's the point: you do have to physically go to the DMV, or the bank, quite frequently. And for most people, the important point to point communications are interactions you want validated against those entities.