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Signal is an order of magnitude easier to use than PGP. It's not even close. The GP was comparing two apps that are actually both very easy to use, one maybe s
by mapgrep 11y ago
Signal is an order of magnitude easier to use than PGP. It's not even close.
The GP was comparing two apps that are actually both very easy to use, one maybe slightly moreso.
(That said, PGP isn't THAT hard either.)
- treve 11y agoI've been actively using PGP for about 2 years with a few friends that all use keybase, but I still don't feel like I really know what I'm doing, or if I'm really doing the right thing. A lot of the terminology and best practices I learned while first setting it up are lost on me now. It still works though! Well, somewhat... since I switched to KDE thunderbird no longer remembers my pgp password. I miss the gnome keyring.
- tptacek 11y ago70% of the UX complaints people have about PGP stem from the huge number of options it has and the lack of guidance it gives you for which options matter. Which is a shame, because none of the options actually matter. If you're encrypting messages to a public key, and not with a passphrase, and you're signing the messages you encrypt, you're getting 98% of the value PGP has to offer. If you want to do things more advanced than that, you probably shouldn't use PGP. PGP has lots of advanced options, but it lacks a lot of fundamental features you'd want from a secure messaging system. But for the basic use case it supports without options, PGP is just fine.