PGP
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Dec 12, 2025first mention
Oct 16, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I never encountered any significant difficulties and could successfully exchange messages with my peers”
“PGP is not going away any time soon, and it is more relevant than ever.”
works at Distruston “Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?”
Caveats and dissent
“I don’t even want to think about pgp when I have to manually take care of this problem.”
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Why I Wrote PGP (1991, revised 1999) 3 mentions
- Are we self-sovereign PKI yet? 1 mention
- Poor Johnny still won't encrypt 1 mention
Data: pgp.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 5
“I used it for a little while”
It's easy to explain. "I use PGP for my personal notes (symmetric) and for e-mailing my security conscious friends (public-key)". That's sufficient and not awkward.
“I never encountered any significant difficulties and could successfully exchange messages with my peers”
“PGP is not going away any time soon, and it is more relevant than ever.”
“I don’t even want to think about pgp when I have to manually take care of this problem.”