GPG and Me
A lot of the comments I've been getting are in the genre of "well... but GPG works."<p>Yes, GPG is a powerful tool that makes some encrypted communication <i>possible</i>.  But is it really "working" if it's the tool we've had for the past 20 years, and we still ended up in a world where surveillance is so ubiquitous and privacy is so rare?  Having used GPG, it seems more likely to me that there are only ~50k GPG users in the world because of the product, not because of weak desire or need for private communication.<p>I'm not suggesting that there's anything "better," but that it's really sad there isn't.  GPG isn't ever going to be anything other than what it is now, and I don't think that's the future we want for ourselves.<p>We could try to slap a GUI on top of it, but I don't believe great products are made that way.  Good UX requires thinking about interactions all the way down to the protocol.  The good news is that GPG has such a small legacy install base (literally on the order of ~50k users), that there's <i>no reason</i> to maintain compatibility with OpenPGP.  When building new products, we can start fresh with modern cryptography, a modern protocol, and a modern design philosophy.