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You can sign any lump of plain text with a GPG signature. I know I'm dreaming here, but...

Honest question: How much traction has PDF-plus-certificate gained versus plaint-text-plus-signature?

Lots when you consider that almost everyone on every platform has a PDF reader to work with that signature, whereas not many people have GPG or GPG tools that are friendly to the non-technical users.

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