In the status quo nothing is verified or encrypted anyway. When we make the perfect the enemy of the good, we reinforce that status quo. As long as the trust model of PGP depends on everyone to get the same religion, we are stuck waiting for a messiah which will never come. If we have any hope of improving the status quo, we need some kind of bootstrap, and that bootstrap won&#x27;t look exactly like the final result we want.<p>Ubiquitous email encryption would improve on the status quo, and prepare the ground for further improvements. People who don&#x27;t care would still be generating more verifiable information than the status quo. People who want to use encryption wouldn&#x27;t be forced to drop it in order to talk to family and friends. People who want to carefully manage their identities and use signing to build a web of trust could build that on top of ubiquitous encryption. This would get us closer to the PGP trust model than anyone has been able to do purely by evangelizing the PGP trust model.