Comment by lixtra

Magic Wormhole looks neat and I can imagine using it. But apparently it requires:

- both parties to be online at the same time

- have access to a secured channel to transfer the secret

- Transfer a new autogenerated secret for each file transfer.

PGP lets you:

- verify the key once

- re-use the key

- the key be submitted through a public channel

- the verification be done in a public (though tamper proof) channel or by web of trust

- the file be stored in transit, no need for online

But obviously, if the complaint is that pgp is too complex, then each single tool to replace some functionality doesn’t cover the whole spectrum.