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Encryption
Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2013–2026), in 7 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with Encryption, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 7 complaints
- Restarts after patches need manual interaction to unlock the encrypted disk2026-03-05
- Sites intermittently fail or hang in browser; ECH remembered and inconsistent behaviour, unclear why2026-03-04
- No common encryption format works across macOS, Windows and Linux, so people struggle to share encrypted drives2022-04-22
- Users don't understand key fingerprints and don't know what to do when keys change2021-01-13
- Encrypted email tooling is fiddly and confusing, so ordinary users can't adopt it2020-04-17
- Clicking explanatory keyword links forces a registration page instead of an FAQ2017-05-09
- No good solution for reading encrypted email on iPhone; adds clicks to each email2013-07-21