https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68129

--- Comment #7 from Brad Jorsch <[email protected]> ---
After consulting with Ops a little more, generating keys on the server isn't
going to work for technical reasons: gpg --gen-key requires a lot of entropy,
which tends to be in short supply on the servers. This means that generating
each key is liable to take a long time and the lack of entropy might negatively
affect other services.

About the only option left if you want to avoid people using gpg themselves is
either a browser extension (as suggested in comment 4) or some sort of
JavaScript key-generation library such as https://keybase.io/kbpgp/ (which I
tried with an example from their documentation, and it didn't work right).

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