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Re:Ask HN: Why is PGP not used widely? by steveklabnik on Sunday November 03, 2013 @01:34PM (#6664378)
Yup. I have made an active use of GPG over the last few months, and there's a few big problems:

1. A UX that is... Hard. As you say. See the last few minutes of this talk I did: http://youtu.be/LjZk8PP-u3c

2. You can't PGP with webmail.

3. You can't PGP on mobile.

4. This means that unless you're on your desktop, you can't do things like search through older emails, which is really important.

5. It requires both people to use PGP.

I fully agree with your final sentiment. If I could fork myself, this is one of the things I'd be putting a ton of time into.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is PGP not used widely? by BenThePyrate on Monday November 04, 2013 @11:09AM (#6669323)
1. Agreed.

2. http://www.mailvelope.com/ https://countermail.com/ http://www.hushmail.com/

3. http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/

4. Well, you could if you jump through some hoops. Which describes using PGP in general.

5. Not only that, it requires both people to use it _correctly_.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is PGP not used widely? by steveklabnik on Monday November 04, 2013 @01:23PM (#6670169)
Hushmail has given your info to the Feds. All the others could be. It's a trust issue.

Same with mobile. There's 'pgp for iOS' but I'll be damned if I upload my private key to a system running all proprietary software...

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