Ask HN: Why aren't there more PGP/GPG fields in sign up forms?
In light recent revelations why aren't more people including PGP or GPG fields in their sign up forms. If there was a push more people would look in to it and use it?
Because it's difficult. Count how many steps it takes to generate a public key (opening a terminal window counts as one, answering each gpg question counts as one, moving your mouse counts as one).
And then there is the fact that your private key is in files, which risk being lost. If you use a keyserver, you have to go find a keyserver to use. Also, some people (myself included) like to have multiple identities, hence multiple publick keys.
It's hell to manage for us hackers, what more your SixPack Joe who has never even touched a command prompt in his life.
What I want to see is something truly unintrusive to use. I like OS X's keychain concept, but I cannot ever bring myself to trust keychain with my private keys.
p/s: I have a public key in my blog. Guess how many times I've received an encrypted email from my blog enquiry? Zero. Everyone uses plaintext instead.