Right. So last Tuesday, a contractor on one of our projects — smart bloke, solid engineer — sends me a Slack message asking if I can “PGP encrypt” a document before sending it over. For security, obviously.
I sat there for a bit. Stared at the cursor. Made another coffee.
Then I typed: “I’ll send it on Signal. What’s your number?”
He was confused, and honestly, I get it. PGP feels like the serious, proper option. It’s been around forever. It’s got “cryptography” written all over it — key rings and fingerprints and ASCII-armoured blocks that look impressively incomprehensible. If you learned about encryption at any point in the last thirty years, someone probably told you PGP was the gold standard.
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