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Comment by jandrese | Hacker News Reader

The only encrypted mail I get is from Facebook. It drives me crazy that nobody else bothers to put a "enter your public key here" field. It seems like it should be super easy to implement, but Facebook is literally the only company that I've ever seen do it.

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How many people in the industry you know (besides Tech), who use an e-mail client that is neither OS X's Mail or a web mail client?

Most "non-tech" people I know use Outlook.

Everyone uses Outlook or Gmail for businesses.

OS X's mail handles PGP just fine with the GPG Mail plugin from the GPG Suite.

Which is now a paid upgrade.

The source is still published and you can build it from source without paying.

I highly doubt non-techie people will want to (or be able to) find the source, install the deps, compile and install it though.

It's not free and is a third party tool developed from reverse engineering apple mail...

The most popular email client is outlook. If you don't know that you are already pretty detached from reality.

Just going to leave this here: https://emailclientmarketshare.com/

Also Outlook does not support e-mail encryption out of the box.

It's amazing you had to use a throwaway just to make that statement.

So I was correct. Thanks. Indeed outlook is the first desktop client in your list.

Could you elaborate? I don't use Facebook.

In Facebook's settings you can paste a PGP public key. Notification emails sent to you by Facebook will then be encrypted using that key.

Interesting! Thanks for the explanation.

Another useful feature is you can opt to have the same key publicly displayed on your Faceook profile page.

Facebook has a field in your profile settings that you can upload your public key. The purpose is to encrypt the email notifications they send to you.

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