<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>Osiris</author><text>Usability is a key issue.&lt;p&gt;My employer requires that emails with certain types of content be sent with a GPG signature.  I spent a few hours today figuring out the best way to do it.  First, I used the CLI to &amp;lt; echo &amp;quot;...&amp;quot; | gpg --clear-sign &amp;gt; and paste that into Gmail (web), but the receiver didn&amp;#x27;t know how to verify the signature (Mac Mail with GPG Tools).&lt;p&gt;Eventually I settled on Thunderbird with an add-on.  It took some googling because the add-on defaulted to &amp;quot;Junior&amp;quot; mode.  Eventually, I was able to send emails both signed and encrypted.&lt;p&gt;So, the issue to me is that there needs to be a standard that can be easily integrated into commonly used communication tools, like Gmail, SMS, etc.&lt;p&gt;Private key portability is also a problem.  I have a USB-C yubikey, and it works on my laptop and my phone.  Once USB-C becomes common, maybe carrying your private keys around with you will be much easier.</text><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>PGP is an alright protocol but I cannot recommend gpg for daily use by non-technical users. They make it extremely difficult to use long-term and simple issues like gpg-agent running as a background process become controversies where they could have just made it optional.&lt;p&gt;Honestly,I think it&amp;#x27;s an alright piece of software but the project became the way it is as a result of the massive gnupg adoption in the *nix world and lack of competition.&lt;p&gt;If it isn&amp;#x27;t cross-platform and user friendly,it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be used by the average citizen. As much as the cryptonerd in me likes this news,Gnupg as it is shouldn&amp;#x27;t be used for official matters. Most lawyers and judges would struggle to use it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington</title><url>https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-September/060987.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>incompatible</author><text>How is it not cross-platform? It does run on &amp;quot;both Windows and macOS&amp;quot; which seems to be the usual definition.</text><parent_chain><item><author>badrabbit</author><text>PGP is an alright protocol but I cannot recommend gpg for daily use by non-technical users. They make it extremely difficult to use long-term and simple issues like gpg-agent running as a background process become controversies where they could have just made it optional.&lt;p&gt;Honestly,I think it&amp;#x27;s an alright piece of software but the project became the way it is as a result of the massive gnupg adoption in the *nix world and lack of competition.&lt;p&gt;If it isn&amp;#x27;t cross-platform and user friendly,it shouldn&amp;#x27;t be used by the average citizen. As much as the cryptonerd in me likes this news,Gnupg as it is shouldn&amp;#x27;t be used for official matters. Most lawyers and judges would struggle to use it.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>GnuPG can now be used to perform notarial acts in the State of Washington</title><url>https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-September/060987.html</url></story>