Indeed using PGP for personal E-mail was never easy and required sufficient knowledge from end users. Using it in corporate setups was a piece of cake and I've seen it personally. I had been using and working on software that manages PGP keys centrally, end users did not have to do anything about encryption or signature verification. The problem was indeed solved. Arguably that is what Gmail tries to (poorly) do right now.
Not to mention the extra issues caused by HTML in message bodies.
Proton Mail came out with a pretty good statement about this and I fully agree.
Recommendations to disable PGP plugins and stop encrypting emails are completely unwarranted and could put lives at risk.
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Indeed using PGP for personal E-mail was never easy and required sufficient knowledge from end users. Using it in corporate setups was a piece of cake and I've seen it personally. I had been using and working on software that manages PGP keys centrally, end users did not have to do anything about encryption or signature verification. The problem was indeed solved. Arguably that is what Gmail tries to (poorly) do right now.
Proton Mail came out with a pretty good statement about this and I fully agree.
https://proton.me/blog/pgp-vulnerability-efail