Why PGP isn't so ubiquitous (was NRC Session Hiss)

Lucky Green shamrock at netcom.com
Mon Jun 3 16:28:49 PDT 1996


At 21:33 6/2/96, Deranged Mutant wrote:

>The reasons PGP hasn't become widely used are because of it's lack of
>user-friendliness and poor integration into other tools, irregardless
>of S/MIME.

I concur. It is that lack of integration that gave S/MIME the space to grow
in. Now it is too late to achieve the market dominance that PGP should have
achieved long ago. S/MIME *will* be the email encryption standard used by
Joe Sixpack.


Disclaimer: My opinions are my own, not those of my employer.

-- Lucky Green <mailto:shamrock at netcom.com>
   PGP encrypted mail preferred.








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