I mean encrypting email was what PGP was created for. It's my understanding that uploading keys was a sign that you wanted your emails to be encrypted as much a

I mean encrypting email was what PGP was created for. It's my understanding that uploading keys was a sign that you wanted your emails to be encrypted as much as possible. Not a mere "I'll accept encrypted emails, even if begrudgingly." Here's a snippet from the PGP FAQ last updated in 1998: > Public Key Servers exist for the purpose of making your public key available in a common database where everybody can have access to it for the purpose of encrypting messages to you. Anyone who wants to write you a message, or to check a signature on a message from you, can get your key from the keyserver, so he doesn't have to bother you with it. https://www.pgp.net/pgp-faq/faq.html#8.1 https://www.pgp.net/pgp-faq/faq.html#8.1 Of course, the writing was on the wall for PGP in email when I created my first keys a decade ago. But it was still touted as a tool for encrypting emails even then during the height of the Snowden disclosures. The complete loss of interest in using it for email is a relatively new phenomenon.