PGP problems

[John Bridges]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:27:45 -0300, Trevor Smith wrote:

>Sad isn't it? Like you alluded to, everyone should use PGP, but no
>one does. I believe this is because it is very complicated to
>understand. I don't think the use of cryptography itself is
>inherently complicated, but I think that *ALL* the documentation for
>PGP is. Some day I am going to write a really simple, "this is what
>it's about, this is why/how to use it" document.

I don't think it's because it's hard to understand.

I think it's still hard to use.

Even in PMMail, it doesn't default to encrypting a reply to an encrypted
message, or have any kind of options to automaticly use encryption for
particular destination email addresses.

So it becomes a "click the button for special messages" thing, instead of a
seemless part of all email.

The plugins for eudora and outlook are worse, very clumsy, not at ALL
seemless.

I can help friends set it up the first time, but if it's a pain to use, they
won't use it.