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> No one was sending you encrypted emails anyway,... Ouch, the unfortunate truth.

jandrese 8y ago
The only encrypted mail I get is from Facebook. It drives me crazy that nobody else bothers to put a "enter your public key here" field. It seems like it should be super easy to implement, but Facebook is literally the only company that I've ever seen do it.
- davidcollantes 8y ago
  Could you elaborate? I don't use Facebook.
  - nicky0 8y ago
    In Facebook's settings you can paste a PGP public key. Notification emails sent to you by Facebook will then be encrypted using that key.
    - davidcollantes 8y ago
      Interesting! Thanks for the explanation.
      - nicky0 8y ago
        Another useful feature is you can opt to have the same key publicly displayed on your Faceook profile page.
  - rubbsdecvik 8y ago
    Facebook has a field in your profile settings that you can upload your public key. The purpose is to encrypt the email notifications they send to you.
- heavenlyblue 8y ago
  How many people in the industry you know (besides Tech), who use an e-mail client that is neither OS X's Mail or a web mail client?
  - stronglikedan 8y ago
    Most "non-tech" people I know use Outlook.
  - rhodysurf 8y ago
    Everyone uses Outlook or Gmail for businesses.
  - ohithereyou 8y ago
    OS X's mail handles PGP just fine with the GPG Mail plugin from the GPG Suite.
    - X-Istence 8y ago
      Which is now a paid upgrade.
      - ohithereyou 8y ago
        The source is still published and you can build it from source without paying.
        penagwin 8y ago
        I highly doubt non-techie people will want to (or be able to) find the source, install the deps, compile and install it though.
    - throwaway415415 8y ago
      It's not free and is a third party tool developed from reverse engineering apple mail...
  - throwaway415415 8y ago
jcranmer 8y ago
The use of PGP for email is somewhere on the order of a few hundred thousand users, while S/MIME is slightly more popular at perhaps a million or two. Out of billions of email addresses.

The only encrypted mail I get is from Facebook. It drives me crazy that nobody else bothers to put a "enter your public key here" field. It seems like it should be super easy to implement, but Facebook is literally the only company that I've ever seen do it.

davidcollantes 8y ago
Could you elaborate? I don't use Facebook.
- nicky0 8y ago
  In Facebook's settings you can paste a PGP public key. Notification emails sent to you by Facebook will then be encrypted using that key.
  - davidcollantes 8y ago
    Interesting! Thanks for the explanation.
    - nicky0 8y ago
      Another useful feature is you can opt to have the same key publicly displayed on your Faceook profile page.
- rubbsdecvik 8y ago
  Facebook has a field in your profile settings that you can upload your public key. The purpose is to encrypt the email notifications they send to you.
heavenlyblue 8y ago
How many people in the industry you know (besides Tech), who use an e-mail client that is neither OS X's Mail or a web mail client?
- stronglikedan 8y ago
  Most "non-tech" people I know use Outlook.
- rhodysurf 8y ago
  Everyone uses Outlook or Gmail for businesses.
- ohithereyou 8y ago
  OS X's mail handles PGP just fine with the GPG Mail plugin from the GPG Suite.
  - X-Istence 8y ago
    Which is now a paid upgrade.
    - ohithereyou 8y ago
      The source is still published and you can build it from source without paying.
      - penagwin 8y ago
        I highly doubt non-techie people will want to (or be able to) find the source, install the deps, compile and install it though.
  - throwaway415415 8y ago
    It's not free and is a third party tool developed from reverse engineering apple mail...
- throwaway415415 8y ago

jcranmer 8y ago

The use of PGP for email is somewhere on the order of a few hundred thousand users, while S/MIME is slightly more popular at perhaps a million or two. Out of billions of email addresses.