What's the matter with PGP?

Great read, but in candor I still use it often! My use of it is very private.

 

ok, he makes a decent case why PGP sucks, but not such a good case what to use as an alternative.

 

For what it's worth, Robert Hansen had this to say on the gnupg-users list:
http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2014-August/050608.html

In particular, this:

 

Excellent advice! And great post from Robert J. Hansen. Thanks mirimir!

 

Agree with the Hansen post, and in any case, the point about the email metadata is pretty much why SilentCircle withdrew from email. It stinks what's happening, there are some interesting alternatives slowly emerging, but there really isn't a solid open source widely used alternative.... but the demand is there. it's like the chicken and egg before email became popular (yes, I remember those days!).