> Signal went the other way. Build a verifiably secure communications platform > so easy that literally anyone can figure it out.
I think this is a misunderstanding of Signal. OpenPGP is, by its very nature, agnostic to ... well, just about everything. It was originally intended for email but spread to become just about everywhere. It's used for package verification mostly nowadays. That is the genuine 99% use case, and that's where our attention really should be focused on. Email is a niche, and even moreso nowadays as email _itself_ is becoming a niche. OpenPGP in email is a niche within a niche. Signal is, by its very nature, tightly tied to one specific communications platform -- that of the smartphone. It's not likely to break out of its home. It's true that Signal has had more impact than OpenPGP in email -- but I think that's an unfair statement to make, as you're cherrypicking the one niche where OpenPGP has had the *least* adoption. Anything looks like a failure if you only look at where it's failed. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
