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You're describing UX issues with e-mail clients and not PGP. If e-mail clients are your problem complain about their failings rather than attributing them to PG
by giantrobot 5y ago
You're describing UX issues with e-mail clients and not PGP. If e-mail clients are your problem complain about their failings rather than attributing them to PGP.
- tptacek 5y agoNote the title of the post.
- danShumway 5y agoDoes it matter to the end user? Signal, Matrix, etc... all have functional UIs that users can use today. For whatever reason, either because PGP is too difficult to work with, or just because email clients are too decentralized, or because there's not enough buy-in -- it doesn't actually matter. But for whatever reason, the UX for encrypted emails doesn't work today, and I can't recommend a normal user start using PGP for emails today because of that, and I agree with tptacek that honestly, technical users can't really use it consistently today either. If somebody comes in and solves the UX problem, and suddenly all the issues go away, then that would be different. But I'm not personally holding my breath. It's not really about who's fault it is, it's about telling people not to use a dangerous, error-prone workflow for encrypting their communication. Whether or not PGP itself is good is kind of secondary to that point.