> On 17 Jan 2016, at 02:19, Doug Barton <dougb@dougbarton.email> wrote:.
> 
> OTOH, PGP is designed primarily to establish trust relationships between 
> people, with human review of the results an integral part of the process.

That may have been the initial motivation. But consider that the most common 
real world use of PGP today is verification of code signatures - many of which 
are generated semi-automatically by build infrastructures such as Debian and 
verified by install tools. The trust relationship here is between your client 
and a build server, not people.

> Glossing over authentication (because there's no real use case for those keys 
> yet), 

Two factor ssh smart card auth? I use it nearly every day - much more often 
than encrypted mail. I don't think anyone has sent me an encrypted mail in over 
a year, and the last one was about signing a PGP key. ;-)

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