German ct magazine postulates death of pgp encryption

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On Friday 27 February 2015 at 12:23:18 PM, in
<mid:54F061B6.3070205 at 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?



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