I dream of a day when secure communications is simple and usable by all.
I dream of a day when secure communications is simple and usable by all.
If you want the masses using encrypted email the key distribution needs to be as seamless as possible. Right now it is the opposite of that. Key management in GPG is a straight up nightmare of dozens of keystores and downloading text files and arcane commandlines. Public key distribution is the elephant in the room with encrypted email. Well, that and the fact that so many people use webmail now and all major webmail providers have completely given up on encryption. I've even seen arguments that since Javascript can never be fully trusted that webmail will never support encryption. Those arguments feel a bit like the "if it can't be perfect it is useless" argument you see a lot in crypto circles that keeps people using entirely unsafe technologies instead of safer partial solutions.