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Make it easy to use GPG

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Due to the ubiquitous surveillance and wire tapping it might be interesting to facilitate the creation and use of a GPG key pair

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Seahorse provides good PGP GUI, but PGP is a generic cryptosystem and it's not that great because of that - e.g. it provides no perfect forward secrecy, you have to build a web of trust to use it, and it just requires a lot of manual handling overall.

It'd be nice to support PGP in Geary, but I can't see any other applications that could benefit from it. We'd better use specialized cryptosystems like OTR. --shnatsel

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