It's considered obsolete by the mainstream security community. Their prior recommendations often got hacked a lot, too. There's a niche group that promotes stuf

It's considered obsolete by the mainstream security community. Their prior recommendations often got hacked a lot, too. There's a niche group that promotes stuff that is stronger even if there's drawbacks to using it. We also let people decide if they accept those drawbacks. I'm in that crowd. I noted that the Snowden leaks said the NSA of all groups hated GPG since it blacked out their collection efforts. They had to send their limited team of hackers to deal with people doing that hitting other parts of their systems. If NSA isn't regularly breaking it, then it should be strong enough to stop all the threats likely to bother me. I push it plus a limited set of commands that make it easy, but annoying, to use. Instead of email, I just tell people to encrypt/sign text and zip files with boring names. That lets us dodge vulnerabilities that come from metadata, email interactions, and so on. Then, send them via whatever mechanism ranging from convenience to full anonymity. Truth is I rarely use it because other people rarely communicate to me encrypted or request it. They usually send stuff to my Gmail account in plaintext or HTML. It's there if I need something stronger. It's a pain in the butt. I at least know it has a stronger baseline than most tools which are unknowns to me that I assume will get hacked until seeing evidence otherwise.