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Re: [openpgp] Manifesto - who is the new OpenPGP for?

Stephen Paul Weber <singpolyma@singpolyma.net> Wed, 25 March 2015 13:00 UTC

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>>Long story short:
>>I don't think that OpenPGP was ever the system of the masses, and
>>perhaps it even shouldn't be.
>
>I think differently - I think a system that doesn't target the masses is 
>doomed.

OpenPGP does not specify a UI.  "Target the masses" implies some kind of UI 
or use case or *something*.  OpenPGP is a format for packing bits together 
and specifying how some of them were encrypted/signed.  You can build any 
kind of PKI I've ever seen on top of OpenPGP, because it's just a format and 
doesn't specify such details.  This is as it should be.

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