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My PGP key used to be here

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I mean does anyone use PGP keys for normal conversations? Tried to convince them no one joined :(

Email in general is an antiquated technology for which security came as an afterthought.

If you want to use your PGP key to chat securely with others you could try Keybase.

Yeah, public PGP keys are not useful.

But I do encrypt a ton of data for my own consumption using GPG.

a lots of folks i know use gpg, especially in the political context it is widely used. so it is not "dead", maybe you just dont know people that actually care.

I accept this. But I myself stopped caring when the new versions of gpg stopped recognizing the public key that I had been using since 2003. I run my own mail server and a bunch of other servers of different types. So I’m not afraid of a little configuration. But I don’t have the patience to debug whatever malfunction gpg has today. If they want people to use this infrastructure, they have to do better.

protonmail has pgp integrated, which is very nice.

Doesn't matter in the larger scheme of things, unless Hotmail and Gmail implement it too. Also: easy migration paths that includes secure key transfers.

Average Joe simply isn't technical or motivated enough to do it on their own.

coupled with protonmail's "enterprise" offering, it makes complete sense (they can host entire domains obviously).

Absolutely! There's nothing wrong with Protonmail's offering, it's just that the other players' dominance will keep that offering from becoming mainstream.

If Gmail started supporting GPG then pretty much everyone would implement it.

Anyone have an rough estimate on the losses from Google not being able to read gmail anymore?

Google would not give the keys to the users, so they would still technically be able to decrypt your emails. I don't think they would implement a security feature that is based on user password (in protonmail you loose your mails if you loose your password).

Maybe you do not know about this https://privacy-watchdog.io/truth-about-protonmail/

That blog's author also suffers from obvious mental issues if you look at any of the articles on it.

Nearly everything he says there is not substantiated. The links don't actually support his arguments, and in fact disprove them in some cases.

In one case he accused Disroot of DDoSing his crappy blog because they wouldn't deny some claim he made that they probably didn't even know about. He used to post it in /r/privacytoolsio until we banned him for low quality posting.. That article is here: https://privacy-watchdog.io/the-truth-about-disroot-org/

He then wrote an article accusing us (privacytools.io) of being paid $11 a month by ProtonMail because we "censored" him. That article is here: https://privacy-watchdog.io/privacytools-io-censors-true-inf...

Well this is disappointing...

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