Comment Re:What surpassed PGP? (Score 3, Informative) 60
Surpassed by encryption that "just works", such as that used in Signal. I can add my friend and text them and I _know_ that only they and I can read it.
It's frictionless, the install of Signal aside. No pissing about with keys, passphrases etc.
GPG is you send me your public key, I send you mine, I mark it as trusted blah blah blah, I copy the secret key around where I need it each time.
I agree, there's no perfect replacement for it in email. But DKIM achieves pretty much the same thing. It doesn't prove the _person_ who sent it, but it proves the domain. That's 99% good enough for almost all commercial/business transactions on the Internet. And it's frictionless, I send the email and it's signed in the background without me having to know what a secret key passphrase is etc etc. It just works. If I get an email from Paypal and it's DKIM/SPF passed, then I'm happy it's really from them, I can trust that.
If that isn't a surpassing of GPG I don't know what is?