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Public crypto should be a core service provided by the OS. Applications should be able to use that core service without having direct access to the keys. The OS

Public crypto should be a core service provided by the OS. Applications should be able to use that core service without having direct access to the keys. The OS on each of your devices should handle synchronising your keys between themselves, and should provide a simple facility for key material backups. If we had this, I'm sure a lot more applications would have support for things like PGP. Because all they would need to do is interface with an API provided by the OS. If I had a tonne of money, I'd quit my job, hire a bunch of developers and work on this full time.

luxpir 11y ago
Can we get this guy a tonne of money, please? Seriously. That's actually a new concept to me and makes a lot of sense. Would people trust an Apple/MS implementation fully? I'm not convinced, but something cross-platform that handles all the heavy lifting per machine-account would make a massive difference. It might not solve the issue of webmail encryption on its own though, which would seem to require either a culture shift or an enforced upgrade.