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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by thex86 on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:26PM (#6042689)
People who use Gmail can use Thunderbird with Enigmail. It works very well and there are detailed tutorials available. I agree though, it's still not as easy as it should be.

User studies of PGP:

Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 (http://www.gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf)

Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt: Evaluating the Usability of Email Encryption Software (http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2006/posters/sheng-poster_abstr...)

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by uptown on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:59PM (#6042830)
Mainstream users won't ever refer to a tutorial to send email.
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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by dmix on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:42PM (#6042757)
Mobile is usually more challenging than desktop.

On Android you can use K9 Mail [1] with your email and it will automatically decrypt PGP messages using keys within APG [2].

[1] https://code.google.com/p/k9mail/

[2] http://www.thialfihar.org/projects/apg

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by mike-cardwell on Monday July 15, 2013 @01:20PM (#6047000)
K-9 mail still only works with inline PGP though, not with PGP/MIME. K-9 Mail is so close to being the perfect mobile email client IMO. Open source, decent UI, fast, fully featured, but it's half-finished PGP implementation is so frustrating.

Also, APG it's self still lacks a bunch of features, and it seems to have been abandoned.

I want a Firefox OS phone, but until there is an email client which supports PGP, it will be useless to me.

Mobile PGP. So frustrating.

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Re:Poll: Do you encrypt your email? by dfc on Sunday July 14, 2013 @07:57PM (#6042818)
PGP on the Blackberry was a wonderful feature. It is too bad it never left the corporate arena.
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