Still trying to get people to sign their emails lol
I just mentioned this in another comment tonight; cryptographic verification has existed for years but basically no one has adopted it for anything. Some people still seem to think pasting an image of your handwriting on a document is “signing” a document somehow.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 months ago
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
I mean, part of it is PGP is the exact opposite of streamlined and you’ve got to be NSA levels of paranoid to bother with it.
ryannathans@aussie.zone 9 months ago
It’s automated in all mainstream email clients, you don’t even have to think about it if a contact has it set up
NateNate60@lemmy.world 9 months ago
if a contact has it set up
Well, there’s your problem.
The most commonly-used mail client in the world is the Gmail web client which does not support it. Uploading your PGP key to Gmail and having them store it server-side for use in a webmail client is obviously problematic from a security standpoint. Number 2 i would guess is Outlook, which appears also not to support it. For most people, I don’t think they understand the value of cryptographically signing emails and going through the hassle of generating and publishing their PGP keys, especially since Windows has no built-in easy application for generating and managing such keys.
There’s also the case that for most people, signing their emails provides absolutely no immediate benefit to them.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
It doesn’t help that in a lot of cases, this is actually accepted by a shit ton of important institutions that should be better, but aren’t.