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Comment on Ask HN: Why is PGP not used widely?

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People cannot use Gmail without help. People have trouble editing wikipedia. People misunderstand some simple concepts.

Even people who have taken the time to install and use PGP, and who seem to want privacy, make weird mistakes such as "Messages encrypted to public keys, to passwords and passphrases, and PGP messages not encrypted at all!"

http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html

Usability of Security: A Case Study of PGP 5.0 User Interface http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/1998/abstracts/98...

"Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Why_Johnny_Cant_Enc...

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