Once you understand how the PGP/GPG system of email privacy works, it’s really quite simple. There are some people just can’t quite get their head around the notion of a public and private key. For these people who can’t get to grips with this I would suggest another possibility is to use an S/mime certificate. The only problem with these certificates is that they can be fiddly or even hard to set up in the first place. It is also true that some people prefer this for encryption and if you want to send encrypted emails to this person you’ll need to have S/mime setup on your computer.
If you’re serious about having email encryption then I think you need to have both systems set up. Like I said some people prefer one hurrah than the other and so you’ll need to have both available to you.
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