[metildaa]

I use PGP, but it is a pain in the ass to use, severely stunting its usr. Normal people can't effectively use PGP without significant training, hence no one outside some DMCA notice bots using PGP in production for the common person to see.

Even Riot with its fucked up key mismanagement is easier to use as a normie than PGP, though its looking like Riot will fix most of those trusted key management issues soon with the PRs that are about to land.

Signal is the gold standard for secure, easy to use crypto at this point IMO. Hopefully Briar continues to improve tho, normie friendly metadata free communication is highly alluring, and the key management is a middle ground between Riot and Signal.

[Zak]

PGP isn't that hard to learn, and 20 years ago when the main form of online messaging was email, using a desktop email client, it was easier. It would be considerably harder now with everyone communicating in walled-garden platforms.

I think we really missed an opportunity, and I don't see a way forward to a world where PGP keys are a widely-used basis for security communication and verifying identity online.

[qrbLPHiKpiux]

Key strokes required. Everyone taps today. Tapping input on a device is horribly inefficient.

[Zak]

This is one of several reasons about 1998 would have been the right time to popularize it, not 2018.

[tim333]

Though a plus of 2018 is people are being forced to sort out public and private keys if they want to muck about with cryptocurrency.