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I think the implication is that GPG is so pathologically complex, awkward, cumbersome, and broken that getting GPG-encrypted e-mail means it's from someone who's so paranoid/obsessive that they encrypt all e-mail, even to strangers (when possible?) even when the tool is so awful as to discourage the average individual.

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>someone who's so paranoid/obsessive that they encrypt all e-mail, even to strangers

That's pretty much what I meant, clearly somebody didn't like me bringing it up. I wonder why. I have to use PGP every day for my job, I don't feel like a paranoid/obsessive, so I resent the implication a little bit. It's a clunky piece of software, but it hasn't caused me nearly as much suffering as Lotus Notes.

Don't bother. While I have much sympathy for the average user and see several problems with PGP, the gen-pop here is creating way too much buzz around a tool that is working reasonably well.

And with respect to the PGP-user / character link.. this is just beyond stupidity.

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