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Truly, the only way to have security is to encrypt the message with the receiver's public key.

I find it discouraging that it's almost 2018 and this function of E-mail has not been made standard in all clients yet.

I understand the concerns about trust, but why not make trust the extra step for now, and make encryption the standard. And in time we can standardize trust as well. (I know it's pretty standard already but I'm thinking about 'the average user')

"Well I can't trust the source so why bother with encryption" is what we have presently, and that's just ridiculous.

"What's your email address" is about 90-120 bits of information -- a long way from the 2000-5000 bits that are in a public key. I figure if we solve this problem then we can make encrypting email the norm.

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