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by thaumasiotes 4606 days ago
Huh, I don't see what I would have considered the obvious answer among what's already been said.

So, to me, the obvious answer is that if you want to use PGP, you first have to make everyone you intend to communicate with also use PGP. That's an obvious no-go. I would be happy to set it up, but what good would that do me?
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ronaldx 4606 days ago
Right.

PGP is enabled by the recipient, not the sender.

If I release my public key (convincingly authenticated), it's up to the sender to take their time to use it.

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cJ0th 4605 days ago
> if you want to use PGP, you first have to make everyone you intend to communicate with also use PGP

And that is probably even harder then getting people to quit facebook...

There should be a popular messenger that uses xmpp with otr by default.

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