I have given up on the "web of trust" a long time ago for most of the reasons the author states. I think in order to work PGP would need to reach a critical mas

I have given up on the "web of trust" a long time ago for most of the reasons the author states. I think in order to work PGP would need to reach a critical mass of users that seems totally out of reach at the moment. Maybe if Google or Facebook starts issuing mandatory PGP keys linked with each account or something like that. Not sure why they'd want to do that though. That being said there's still a lot of good and useful in PGP even if you ignore the WoT completely. I use it to secure my passwords, log into remote servers securely with SSH and I sign all of my emails with it, which is probably useless 99.9% of the time but at least it can be used in retrospect to prove that I did write those messages. I can also use it to sign git tags so that my code can still be trusted even if there's a breach in, say, github. I have a rather vast choice of GnuPG tokens I can purchase if I want an added layer of convenience and (hopefully) security. Sure, WoT is simply unusable currently unless you're communicating mostly with hardcore PGP enthusiasts. That won't be enough to make me give up on PGP.