Comment Re: GPG is another TrueCrypt? (Score 2) 309
You want the impossible. You want communications you can trust without having to understand how they happen.
See, there's the rub. Perhaps 10% of the geek community even _think_ they know how this stuff works, of which perhaps another 10% of that group have a reasonably up-to-date knowledge. Which would probably work out to 0.1% of the PC/phone/iThing/tablet-using public.
OTOH, we see people of all intellectual persuasions, most of whom haven't a clue how their cell phone works. But they are successfully using a device which has built-in encryption (which could probably be better, but that's aside the point) for their phone calls, without any significant setup other than buying the phone and providing certain details about themselves. So some level of trusted communications _can_ be provided without everyone becoming a geek, but (as you imply) it does require some kind of industry agreement - and government acceptance - to provide an uncompromised solution. And I think that is essentially impossible as long as we have even a few "bad guys" (for any definition of "bad guy") out there.