I did exactly the same, signature as a badge of being one of "those guys". In the days of 56 bit "international edition" Netscape (or slightly thereafter, but s

I did exactly the same, signature as a badge of being one of "those guys". In the days of 56 bit "international edition" Netscape (or slightly thereafter, but still heavily influenced by that early wave of NSA-awareness), it felt like being way ahead of the curve. Kudos to the guy with the fake signature, in hindsight I must say that he truly nailed it. One day however, my bank started offering transaction notifications by email, with optional PGP encryption. Suddenly there was real utility, and without any trace of WoT issues (key exchange over the same web frontend already trusted for actually transferring money, and the key in question is only for read-only messages). Other than that, the only encrypted messages I receive are the ones I send to myself as a convenient (because everything is already set up) form of secure cloud storage.