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Why even bother at this point? PGP encryption in email is... not a good way to do secure communication.

For one, it works.

And if it doesn't work, you're doing it wrong. Or maybe never figured it out well enough to even try in the first place.

What’s wrong with PGP?

Or are you referring to email

There are many things wrong with both the UX and internal cryptographic design of PGP. Here are a few articles that go over those issues in more depth:

https://blog.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/

https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/08/13/whats-ma...

https://secushare.org/PGP

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-pgp-is-fundamentall...

Yet it's the best we got right now.

Well there's http://age-encryption.org/ and raw ed25519.

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