I just had a revelation about email encryption...
This may be old news to some, but I've been pondering <i>why</i> it is so annoyingly difficult to get anyone other than my computer literate friends/acquaintances to use PGP email encryption for important transmissions. There are obvious chicken and egg arguments about why, but I think it is slightly deeper.<p>The situation reminds me of the earlier Renaissance period when the intellectual elite (Da Vinci et al.) devised simple encryption schemes for writing correspondance. Or the mirror writing technique...<p>It's always been this way; and always will be. The layman will simply <i>never</i> use the tools (even though they are remarkably simpler and more straightforward than they were in the 1800's) available to them because they aren't convenient and it requires an investment in learning to use those tools and the nomenclature associated with it...