GPG and Me
A lot of the comments I've been getting are in the genre of "well... but GPG works."Yes, GPG is a powerful tool that makes some encrypted communication possible.  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.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.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 no reason to maintain compatibility with OpenPGP.  When building new products, we can start fresh with modern cryptography, a modern protocol, and a modern design philosophy.