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On Friday 27 February 2015 at 12:23:18 PM, in <mid:54f061b6.3070...@seichter.de>, Ralph Seichter wrote: > The thought of letting PGP die as an e-mail encryption > mechanism for the "masses" (the non-tech-savvy average > users) and to have it replaced with something my mother > could use is valid. Has OpenPGP ever been an e-mail encryption mechanism for the "masses"? It is certainly not used by most. > Alice can't just send an e-mail to Bob, she needs to acquire and > verify Bob's public key first. Depends on the threat model. If Alice knows Bobs email address and there is a matching key on the keyservers, isn't it likely to be better to opportunistically encrypt to that key rather than to send the message unencrypted? - -- Best regards MFPA mailto:2014-667rhzu3dc-lists-gro...@riseup.net Was time invented by an Irishman named O'Clock? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJU8z/JXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRCM0FFN0VDQTlBOEM4QjMwMjZBNUEwRjU2 QjdDNzRDRUIzMUYyNUYwAAoJEGt8dM6zHyXw48wIAI4UHlmaw8rYWbnoS+gzhyaP oVyu8msA0kZjOZo6o1TIP6Ffc21v3wU46ClZq07gtHVXaiRvisdIKMf/v/b5GnN/ Cer+HbiTMz2ivThcb69JndM3aQB/5+DI8l2UJQ2NOpVnIS5OgIvLw8rJd5SujMdx yyf7l32b6xlnbS2Z1z+COsz4Uo+h35v8MhRxeG0bFZuWTlOP99jbVaELJ+halAPS HiDffoMDd3khRUYCFkkA2vAxMthmSMwNWEllr7uQtCcd4kD5AA9gC2MFkyywESIN WM2UOmVA79c6OccdpxP+Ggs/Caz+DcjLYRUL5vgAOtZb/jyOyWPfNro0y1WdlJiI vgQBFgoAZgUCVPM/zl8UgAAAAAAuAChpc3N1ZXItZnByQG5vdGF0aW9ucy5vcGVu cGdwLmZpZnRoaG9yc2VtYW4ubmV0MzNBQ0VENEVFOTEzNEVFQkRFNkE4NTA2MTcx MkJDNDYxQUY3NzhFNAAKCRAXErxGGvd45GnrAQBRV/lNKdoutB6x2/URS8DlClT/ EoEsN4gz/qkzeKPNZwEAEhpOFVDf3bC9n1FZUXxYgMwU95UBVI58AKjIkTV0egE= =pfFQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
