Reading what you quoted, no it is not, as long as you contribute to free software or you have projects that are open source. Not just your personal homepage. If you only have a personal homepage and nothing else that is open source, then they have a problem.

My 2 cents.

> Did you not read the post I linked upthread?

Oh THAT is why you are steering people away from OpenPGP, gotchu. I have read it a long time ago. I remain to be convinced. The blog post just reeks of "I can't use it, too complex for me therefore it sucks". Yeah, it can be misused, I do not deny that.

(BTW I could not care less about e-mail.)

Cool, so we got two people here who kept saying "PGP is shit", but when asked for an alternative, they weasel out with "no thanks", or "I will not [say]"? Yeah, okay. Got it. I hope you realize it weakens everything you have said. Hell, there is nothing to weaken to begin with!

> (that the other commenter was simply wrong that the archaisms in PGP/OpenPGP are a mere consequence of GnuPG and avoidable by avoiding GnuPG)

Didn't read it like that though, it read like "OpenPGP is shit", and I could quote you where you are claiming exactly that:

> outmoded fundamentally, not just by one implementation

You said this, about OpenPGP.

Welp.

I believe lrvick said that the spec isn't perfect but works fine in practice, and advises against old broken implementations of it. We will see. In any case, imperfection does not imply fundamental flaw.

I might have missed it. Have you elaborated on why you think OpenPGP is fundamentally flawed? Do you know of any GPG replacements (or rather, OpenPGP replacements)? I want encryption, signing, key management, email integration (optional), multiple recipients, subkeys, revocation certificates, web of trust (even if unused), smart card support, and so on.