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The average Joey Bloggs is just coming to terms with fake news and how to make their social media pages more private. PGP is not user friendly though and will
by mothsonasloth 8y ago
The average Joey Bloggs is just coming to terms with fake news and how to make their social media pages more private.
PGP is not user friendly though and will never reach wide adoption until it's made easier or someone develops a service for it.
- Carpetsmoker 8y agoPGP doesn't need to be user-friendly just to verify signatures. It's like verifying your Linux distro's package system: all of them sign their packages (usually with PGP) and they get verified on installation, but as an end-user I never see it. And yes, PGP is hard, but only if I want to add signatures to my emails, or use it for encryption. But that's a different use case than what I wrote about here. I think this is exactly the sort of confusion I intended with: > Confusion between every-day “random person A emails random person B”-usage versus “large company with millions of users sends thousands of emails daily”-usage.
- BeetleB 8y ago>But that's a different use case than what I wrote about here. I find it amusing that the problem in the HN threads isn't that they know too little, it's that they know too much. They've seen arguments against PGP for years, and are having trouble processing the post in any way that is different from the "usual" PGP use cases they've seen. I'm seeing comments arguing that the user can't understand concepts of web of trust, or will get fooled by Paypals.com's signature, etc.
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- ajcodez 8y agoIsn’t that service Keybase?
- Leace 8y agoKeybase diverged so significantly from PGP that one wouldn't say "Keybase is PGP with good UX". You can say "Keybase is encryption with good UX" though.
- BeetleB 8y agoThe main proposal in the submission does not involve a user installing PGP or understanding it.