8 engineers on Hacker News describe using PGP first-hand: 0 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I use PGP, but it is a pain in the ass to use, severely stunting its usr.”
regret · personal · metildaa · 2018-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using PGP for mostly 1 year and yes, I agree. ... Generating keys and backing them up is tricky”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · esseti · 2016-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“When I was a teenager, I'd PGP sign all my emails and refused to use Gmail / etc because of privacy.”
neutral · personal · zachlatta · 2025-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use a custom open source solution built on top of pgp to transmit sensitive data across directorates”
neutral · production · spapas82 · 2023-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Initially we had RSA, PGP and a custom encryption in there, the latter two for other features besides EDI.”
neutral · production · 3 yr · drawkbox · 2017-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We just used default PGP setup with symmetric keys (which used PGP/IDEA internally I think).”
neutral · production · drawkbox · 2017-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we only added PGP at the time because it was a hot item/had some buzz about it during the time.”
neutral · production · drawkbox · 2017-06-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“as everyone had PGP made it a straightforward job of encrypting things according to policy.”
neutral · production · _b8r0 · 2011-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?