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> OpenPGP ... is only adopted by the most hard core of nerds. This seems pretty inaccurate. * Lots of software projects sign their releases with PGP. * Almos
by nh2 8y ago
> OpenPGP ... is only adopted by the most hard core of nerds.
This seems pretty inaccurate.
* Lots of software projects sign their releases with PGP.
* Almost all Linux distributions sign their software with PGP. If you use Linux, your security relies critically PGP.
* Github has support for PGP, and I see people use it.
* My random server hoster happens to sign all their emails with PGP.
You could claim that all these systems are run "by the most hard core of nerds", but at that point the statement loses its relevance.
- lrvick 8y agoEven Facebook for all their privacy failings supports it. You can add your public key to your profile and they will encrypt all emails to you.
- arglebarnacle 8y agoThe GP was pretty clearly talking about PGP in the context of ordinary encrypted communication between people (like email). Keybase isn't competing with PGP for signing releases. In the field that we are talking about, PGP has absolutely failed to gain widespread traction outside a certain hard core group of nerds.
- jedberg 8y agoThose aren't a representative sample of computer users though. Those are in fact the most hard core of nerds. If you want to take a poll of users, look at even keybase users (already highly biased). How many of them use the PGP key that they had to create when they signed up? I know I don't.