Plan B - Who carries the torch?

[jman]

Ryan McGinnis via Gnupg-users writes:

> Why does GPG continue to be developed with email uses in mind even
> though it's now widely accepted that GPG is a terrible way to securely
> communicate with another person and that a number of much more secure, much 
> more
> robust, much less complicated (from the end user perspective)
> solutions exist?

genuine question, what are other proposals for communicating in a way
that is as secure and decentralized but simpler to handle for an end
user (especially not technically inclined)?

(apologies for kind-of-stealing the thread topic)

thanks.

Regards,