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It's a bit like `git` in that yes, it is a complicated tool, but you can do 99% of what most people need to do with like 5 commands. People make exactly the arg
by bscphil 3y ago
It's a bit like `git` in that yes, it is a complicated tool, but you can do 99% of what most people need to do with like 5 commands. People make exactly the argument you are making about git.
- slondr 3y agoIn fact I’d say gpg is even more singularly useful than git. Git has competitors which are superior to it in nearly every way; gpg does not, and likely won’t.
- dale_glass 3y agoGPG doesn't have competitors because modern security thought rejects the approach and treats it as a relic. The modern thought is that security can't be an add-on, it needs to be part of the system. So encryption for a chat client and encryption for a web browser, and signatures on a binary are all different problems to be solved differently.
- klodolph 3y agoI have been using PGP a lot longer and still struggle to use it. When you say, "People make exactly the argument you are making about git," well, those people have a point. I use Git in spite of its usability problems because it gets useful work done. I don't see the upside of pushing through the usability problems of PGP. If I somehow put in the hours to get used to it, then what? What am I accomplishing?