This is a very interesting point, all the more interesting that it takes someone with Moxie's clout for the message to come out.
I've been in and out of the "GPG everything!" group over the years, and I definitely agree that GPG is a pain to use. I always figured this was because of the lack of proper frontends, and was hoping for the major influx of funding a couple weeks back would help it make progress in usability and infrastructure, but Moxie says that it's obsolete at its core.
But if we're to replace it, the replacement has to not only be at least as secure, but also standardized and embeddable. A webapp or Chrome extension (which Google's End-to-End is) won't make the cut.
I've been in and out of the "GPG everything!" group over the years, and I definitely agree that GPG is a pain to use. I always figured this was because of the lack of proper frontends, and was hoping for the major influx of funding a couple weeks back would help it make progress in usability and infrastructure, but Moxie says that it's obsolete at its core.
But if we're to replace it, the replacement has to not only be at least as secure, but also standardized and embeddable. A webapp or Chrome extension (which Google's End-to-End is) won't make the cut.