PGP et al is basically irrelevant given how few people use PGP compared to the >2.5 billion users that use Whatsapp and >1B using iMessage. My wording wasn't e

PGP et al is basically irrelevant given how few people use PGP compared to the >2.5 billion users that use Whatsapp and >1B using iMessage. My wording wasn't exact; other encryption programs have enabled secure messaging, but without big players it would've been outlawed by now because it would've been easier to say "only criminals" use encrypted communication. As for the "numerous open encryption standards", these are fairly irrelevant since the foremost goal is not encrypted messaging, but mostly for creating a secure way for business to interface with customers (can't run a startup or Fortune 500 business without being able to trust requests and responses). Getting people to use encrypted communications is the hard part, not designing the encryption or even implementing it.