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> is ridiculously complicated and uses terms and concepts that the vast majority of people don't and won't understand. You are being a bit harsh. Sure, it's co
by thomastjeffery 9y ago
> is ridiculously complicated and uses terms and concepts that the vast majority of people don't and won't understand.
You are being a bit harsh. Sure, it's complicated if you don't understand the basics of public key encryption, but as soon as you do, GPG is trivial to use.
The problem most people have is an unwillingness to learn the basic concepts. Public key encryption is a novel idea, and really isn't hard to learn.
- DanBC 9y ago> Sure, it's complicated if you don't understand the basics of public key encryption, but as soon as you do, GPG is trivial to use. Do you have any research to support your claims? Because everything I've seen says that PGP / GPG is hard to use, even for smart tech-literate people who have something to hide. These are all old. I don't know if it's got much better. http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/1998/abstracts/98-155.html http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/1998/abstracts/98... https://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html https://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Why_Johnny_Cant_Encrypt/OReilly.pdf https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Why_Johnny_Ca...
- thomastjeffery 9y ago> Do you have any research to support your claims? I thought it obvious from the language that I was sharing an anecdote.