PGP problems

[John Bridges]

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000 11:08:03 -0700 (PDT), Isaac wrote:

>Hey, come on, it's the same issues with Netscape vs. IE or MS-Office vs.
>other office suites. First, most people will use whatever comes
>pre-installed on their machine (IE vs. NS). And even if something else is
>better, I can't use it because everyone else is using some other
>"standard" (MS-Office vs. other).

I think a better comparison is HTTPS versus HTTP.

Sites go through the bother (and expense) to get certificates because there
is a general knowledge about "secure" sites.

The same thing seems to be ignored in email.

Even in applications with built in PGP support (PMMail), you have to jump
through hoops to use it on a regular basis (no way to automaticly use it for
new messages or even when replying to an encrypted message).