For 20 years nobody cared about crypto - how is it surprising that we have what we have? For the future - progress does not come from just line of development,

For 20 years nobody cared about crypto - how is it surprising that we have what we have? For the future - progress does not come from just line of development, there needs to be many many experiments before we get good crypto. We need better UIs, and we also need many infrastructure improvements. I have not looked at the protocol itself - but it being flexible and having too many options is not really a problem - it is needed for the other layers built upon it to have space for experimentation. But the PGP related libs are really not good. I had once an idea for a Web of Trust related website - and I found out that there is no way to for example verify a signature without loading a full key-ring, that is loading all unrelated keys into the memory just to build the data structure used by the library. This is just one case - but it supports the thesis that the libs are a fossil from the last century. If we want better end user tools we need to give better libs for programmers to start the experiments.