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1. You can create throwaway PGP keys, it's not like they can definitively identify you 2. You can encrypt messages for target PGP public key(s) without actually signing them

It's a good way to prevent people from snooping on your messages. Why do you think it's a bad idea?

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The newer protocols for encrypted messaging like Signal are intentionally less weak than PGP in order to give plausible deniability. Specifically, the other person in the conversation can forge messages from you inside it.

because it works but some people think it getting in criminal hands is too big a price.

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