I'd love to see something displace GPG, particularly the "pipe to an external application" usage paradigm that's just awful in so many ways. At the same time I'm not ready to give up the only cryptosystem that we know to have actually thwarted the NSA in real-world conditions, particularly when so many of the proposed alternatives require absolute non-starters like publishing your phone number or using an unverifiable auto-updating client application.
But fundamentally there's no money in it. GPG is Like That largely because it's maintained by a grand total of one (1) guy, which is all the OSS community can afford to fund. Who's going to pay for a crypto platform, except when it's the CIA (or equivalent) sponsoring useful idiots?
But fundamentally there's no money in it. GPG is Like That largely because it's maintained by a grand total of one (1) guy, which is all the OSS community can afford to fund. Who's going to pay for a crypto platform, except when it's the CIA (or equivalent) sponsoring useful idiots?