Email aliases , pgp and e2ee

Awhile back I was listening to a well known cryptography podcast that made the case for why PGP emails are a waste of time and found myself wondering why they were advocating for users to move away from using it. It’s quite possible but without friction. Say you’re on iOS, you have an @icloud.com, you create an alias, you generate a keypair for that alias, and want to send a PGP encrypted email. You can’t use the standard Mail client for that because it only support S/MIME. So you switch to something like Canary, you generate your keypairs there and add the public key of who you want to email. Now let’s say that party you want to email is using something like Zoho mail. This provider allows you to receive and send PGP encrypted emails using Mailvelope, after you add your public key to to signing server. You import the public key for the alias address that was generated with the options to sign and encrypt the emails you send. Yes, it’s a bit of a hassle to setup but in the end you have proven encrypted PGP communication, which I would say I tend to trust more than any messenger.