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Yeah, it's tedious if you do it the long way around because you, for some reason, have arbitrarily restricted yourself to only doing it via command line... Jus

Yeah, it's tedious if you do it the long way around because you, for some reason, have arbitrarily restricted yourself to only doing it via command line... Just get an email client that has PGP capability built in.

serf 6y ago
agree completely. encrypted email is broken, and a lot of that has to do with ui/ux problems; but the author is making this way harder than it has to be.
grandinj 6y ago
Unfortunately, it only gets marginally better. It is still way too painful for regular people to use.
Majromax 6y ago
> Just get an email client that has PGP capability built in. That step isn't as straightforward as you might think. Put yourself in the shoes of a complete novice. As of this writing, a Google search for {pgp email windows} returns gpg4win as the top search result, which is the tool the author used. Otherwise, the software listed on the openpgp website (https://www.openpgp.org/software/ https://www.openpgp.org/software/) mostly doesn't have PGP capability "built in." In particular, both Evolution and Outlook require addons for PGP support. Despite suffering from bad UX, the instructions the author followed are largely those present in a top-Google-searched guide (https://yanhan.github.io/posts/2017-09-27-how-to-use-gpg-to-encrypt-stuff.html https://yanhan.github.io/posts/2017-09-27-how-to-use-gpg-to-... -- infobox result for {gpg encrypted email}). Easier methods that are harder to find or less obvious may as well not exist for a novice such as the author of this article.
- recrudesce 6y ago
  Sure, but the other weird thing is the author uses Protonmail... which can support PGP natively, so why the fart-arsing around ? https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-use-pgp/ https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-use-pgp... The whole article is basically "lol look at this thing that is actually relatively well supported with a small amount of work, but I couldn't be bothered to spend time doing some research about my use case and instead just read the first google result I found, so I'm going to crap all over it and make it look worse than it actually is for Internet Karma." And the comment about being a novice, looking at the rest of the blog site implies the user has some level of competence when it comes to computing technologies as they are messing around with webserver configs etc.
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serf 6y ago

agree completely. encrypted email is broken, and a lot of that has to do with ui/ux problems; but the author is making this way harder than it has to be.

grandinj 6y ago

Unfortunately, it only gets marginally better. It is still way too painful for regular people to use.

Majromax 6y ago

> Just get an email client that has PGP capability built in. That step isn't as straightforward as you might think. Put yourself in the shoes of a complete novice. As of this writing, a Google search for {pgp email windows} returns gpg4win as the top search result, which is the tool the author used. Otherwise, the software listed on the openpgp website (https://www.openpgp.org/software/ https://www.openpgp.org/software/) mostly doesn't have PGP capability "built in." In particular, both Evolution and Outlook require addons for PGP support. Despite suffering from bad UX, the instructions the author followed are largely those present in a top-Google-searched guide (https://yanhan.github.io/posts/2017-09-27-how-to-use-gpg-to-encrypt-stuff.html https://yanhan.github.io/posts/2017-09-27-how-to-use-gpg-to-... -- infobox result for {gpg encrypted email}). Easier methods that are harder to find or less obvious may as well not exist for a novice such as the author of this article.

recrudesce 6y ago
Sure, but the other weird thing is the author uses Protonmail... which can support PGP natively, so why the fart-arsing around ? https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-use-pgp/ https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/how-to-use-pgp... The whole article is basically "lol look at this thing that is actually relatively well supported with a small amount of work, but I couldn't be bothered to spend time doing some research about my use case and instead just read the first google result I found, so I'm going to crap all over it and make it look worse than it actually is for Internet Karma." And the comment about being a novice, looking at the rest of the blog site implies the user has some level of competence when it comes to computing technologies as they are messing around with webserver configs etc.
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