I don't understand cryptography, and I don't understand the particulars of the concerns that people have with GnuPG. I do know I've used it maybe once, and it wasn't straightforward.
You wrote: "I would humbly propose that before you go telling everyone to stop using gpg, implement something that works, builds, and that doesn't break after 6 months or so."
Keybase did some stuff and got tons of users. It even had a command-line client. It was all open source, too. Is there any reason that the crypto old guard hasn't just shamelessly copied Keybase? The most important being: its CLI (the design, not necessarily the implementation) and the overall "shape" of the project organization/structure. Why hasn't gpg been "uplifted" into a Keybase-shaped "shell" for people to interact with? I.e. at both the tool level and at the collaborative project level?
RMS came from the AI lab working on Lisp machines. Despite this, he recognized that a UNIX-shaped project was the correct vehicle for his vision, given its growing popularity. Why haven't the GPG folks given up on trying force people to do things their traditional way and attached their cart to a horse that has legs?
You wrote: "I would humbly propose that before you go telling everyone to stop using gpg, implement something that works, builds, and that doesn't break after 6 months or so."
Keybase did some stuff and got tons of users. It even had a command-line client. It was all open source, too. Is there any reason that the crypto old guard hasn't just shamelessly copied Keybase? The most important being: its CLI (the design, not necessarily the implementation) and the overall "shape" of the project organization/structure. Why hasn't gpg been "uplifted" into a Keybase-shaped "shell" for people to interact with? I.e. at both the tool level and at the collaborative project level?
RMS came from the AI lab working on Lisp machines. Despite this, he recognized that a UNIX-shaped project was the correct vehicle for his vision, given its growing popularity. Why haven't the GPG folks given up on trying force people to do things their traditional way and attached their cart to a horse that has legs?