> paste base64 nonsense into email, Why would people paste the text into the composer rather than attaching the file? > I disagree that GPG is easy, and I thi

> paste base64 nonsense into email, Why would people paste the text into the composer rather than attaching the file? > I disagree that GPG is easy, and I think telling people to use it will mean they screw it up. We can tell people to zip up files (possibly encrypting them with a password) and attach them to an email, but I've never heard anyone argue that telling people to do that would mean that they would screw it up. What makes GPG different (other than the public/private key thing)? Maybe one way to introduce people to GPG would be to have them use symmetric encryption at first to send messages and files (as an alternative to a password protected zip or other archive format). Then tell them that if they create keypairs, they only need to give the other person their public key and the other person does not need to tell them the password of the day anymore to securely send the message.