• lud@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I wonder if openPGP will ever gain popularity.

    The only ones I have seen that even publish a key for me to use are a few famous internet individuals (people like Richard stallman, (I don’t know if he specifically uses it)), a few companies like mullvad, a few orgs like EFF, whistleblowers, and a few governmental organisations like the Financial Supervisory Authority in my country.

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      1 year ago

      @lud @makeasnek With more government controls and intervention, its possible. I learned how to use PGP pretty efficiently but there is absolutely no one in my daily life that also uses it.

      Manual encryption with personal keys may become the norm if less and less services are able to use it.

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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, this kind of barrier is a huge setback. With Signal I can get friends to use it without them really understanding anything besides taking my word that “it’s secure”.