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Anything that requires the end user to internalize PKI is dead on arrival.

A) The interface won't get intuitive enough.

B) The asshats will still find a way in.

C) Ain't nobody ever met someone in the real world and gone "Yo dawg, what's your public key?"

Encryption is just a machine that turns already hard problems into key management problems.



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