@einebiene Most of the reasons people have against #OpenPGP are that it (and especially email) "leaks metadata". But the whole point of it is to verify identities anyway.

I don't use OpenPGP for pseudonymous communication, but for integrity and authentication. To make sure that the person I receive something from actually generated it.

This is especially interesting when storing your own data or backups. Encryption is one layer, but I care more that noone's messed around with it or the data has been otherwise corrupted. A signed backup is a verified backup. :) (#duplicity makes this extremely easy btw)