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1. rollca+(OP)[view] [source] 2025-01-04 16:04:21
Then why no such efforts are being pursued for PGP(GPG) nowadays?

signify[1] is approachable at least for the power users - I could print out that man page on a T-shirt. HTTPS is ubiquitous and easy, thanks to ACME & Let's Encrypt. E2EE with optional identity verification is offered in mainstream chat apps.

And of course there are usability improvements to GPG, being made by third parties: Debian introduced package verification a couple decades ago, Github does commit verification, etc. What's to stop e.g. Nautilus or Dolphin from introducing similar features?

[1]: https://man.openbsd.org/signify

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2. Y_Y+l8[view] [source] 2025-01-04 17:13:32
>>rollca+(OP)
> Then why no such efforts are being pursued for PGP(GPG) nowadays?

I wonder why there aren't more, but there are some, for example Proton's efforts towards encrypted email.

https://proton.me/support/how-to-use-pgp

(I won't mention the relative shortcomings of HTTPS and E2E chat apps here.)

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