70% of the UX complaints people have about PGP stem from the huge number of options it has and the lack of guidance it gives you for which options matter.<p>Which is a shame, because none of the options actually matter.<p>If you&#x27;re encrypting messages <i>to a public key</i>, and not with a passphrase, and you&#x27;re <i>signing the messages you encrypt</i>, you&#x27;re getting 98% of the value PGP has to offer.<p>If you want to do things more advanced than that, you probably shouldn&#x27;t use PGP. PGP has lots of advanced options, but it lacks a lot of fundamental features you&#x27;d want from a secure messaging system.<p>But for the basic use case it supports without options, PGP is just fine.