[Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?

[David Mercer]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Jerry Leichter <leichter at lrw.com> wrote:

> On Dec 12, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
> [About problems getting signed/encrypted mail to work in Mail.app,
> concluding:]
> > Summary:  On the surface, the Mac provides easy-to-use support.  But
> when you actually try to enable it, it fails in a way that is certainly
> beyond the ability of most users to fix - and even being quite knowledgable
> about this stuff, after 1/2 an hour or so of trying, I gave up.
> Apparently, there's one step you have to take that's mentioned nowhere in
> the documentation:  After you put your new key in the keychain, you have to
> restart Mail.app.  I normally let it run indefinitely, and didn't even
> consider this possibility.  Then yesterday I restarted it for some reason I
> no longer remember.  Suddenly, the option to send signed or encrypted mail
> ... just appeared!
>                                                         -- Jerry
>

GPG Tools integrates gpg with Mail.app and other OS X apps very well. It
signs mail by default and offers encrypt as an option if any recipients are
in your keychain. But yes you have to restart Mail for it to work too.

-David Mercer
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