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>When I receive a GPG encrypted email from a stranger, though, I immediately get the feeling that I don’t want to read it.

This is an interesting case where a barrier to entry makes discourse less valuable. Perhaps the barrier makes people feel like they have to prepare a short speech in order to make the effort worthwhile. I certainly would rather converse with most people than listen to one minute speeches from them.



If you ready on, you'll see that his gripe isn't with the effort put into decrypting, but the subset of people who voluntarily use GPG.


I'm talking about the effort the sender has to put into encrypting.


Ironically unsaid:

"People like myself for twenty years and nothing to sell."


Still, I don't think people should stop using it.




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