Analogy of learning to drive to learning crypto is pretty good privacy. Extend that from needing a key, fob or fingerprint to start a vehicle to needing a computer and a device, token, card, fingerprint, to encrypt. Plug it in, encrypt begins, nothing else needed except driver license, intelligence, vision, hearing, gasoline or battery, safe roads, directional signs, fuel stations, cops, insurance, anti-theft devices, annual inspection, license renewal, or when disabled, poor or broke, terrified of mass killing excessive vehicles, alternate means of encryption, like buses, trains, aircraft, ships, taxis, limos, choppers, subways, balloons, horses, feet and sidewalks while packing a gun, knife or pepper spray for defense against predators, rapists, thieves, rubber hoses, hackers, crackers, dopeheads. But maybe a profession of encryption officers to encrypt for the user, like lawyers, doctors, engineers and notaries, state licensed for protection of customers, self-regulated because nobody would know crypto like the pros, with a crypto system like the justice and prison systems to assure accountability and punishment for infraction. Would require outlawing crypto use by anyone except a pro and official secretkeepers but, cereal box DIY would be available. PKC would be banned as a state, church and family offense, like kiddie porn and WMD. Cryptographers would be venerated as high holies, sack clothed, wild haired, slit-eyed, filthy, babbling, narcissitic jerks, abusively sado-masochistic, panhandling, duplicitous, feared, contemptuous of ordinary humans, ostracized, distrusted. Woe peddling obsessives. Hmm, that last is the current faith in encryption religion. Could be left as it is, isolated, ignored, ridiculed, tatooed with a Red C on forehead.

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On 08/11/15 08:40, Peter Gutmann wrote:

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oshwm <oshwm@openmailbox.org> writes:

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Can GPG be easier to use, I think so, is it too difficult to use by ordinary people - no, they're just too fucking lazy and lack motivation.

... and this is pretty much the poster child for why we have so much unusable crypto today.

Or, why we have such a fucking retarded human race with the attention span of a knat who expect everything to be given to them on a plate. People have to stop being lazy and start taking an interest and responsibility for what goes on in the world around them - your point of view re-inforces the dumbing down of the population and the increase in power of the Government and big Corps.

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Peter.