On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Johan Beisser <j...@caustic.org> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Tomas Vavrys <vav...@cleancode.cz> wrote: >> Is there a light at the end of the tunnel somewhere to make email >> secure even for amateurs who don't know how to use PGP? I'm very >> curious about the future of email, especially now. I would like to >> hear opinions of OpenBSD wizards. The thing is that it is very hard to >> persuade someone to use PGP all the time. > > PGP has gotten easier with various front ends. Take a look at GPG Made > Easy for an example of simplifying the library calls for application > access to PGP encryption.
Typing "pgp --make-it-safe" or clicking a button has never been the hard part. The key management and trust clusterfuck is the hard part. Kaminksy's "DNS is the root of all certs" approach looks promising, so I think there's a chance we'll see real progress within ten years.
