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Re: [Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Yaron Sheffer)
Thu Dec 12 14:59:27 2013
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 21:08:56 +0200
From: Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>, Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
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> Takeup of PGP and S/MIME seems to be very much like takeup for IPSEC.
> There are some big intranet deployments and possibly a few extranet
> deployments.
>
> What is the gap we have to close to turn this on by default?
>
IPsec is mostly inside enterprises, so actual deployment can only be
counted by asking the vendors (who won't say) or the open source
providers (who don't have reliable numbers).
I don't know what part of encrypted email is done by individuals and
what part is enterprise. But since email in general is becoming less
and less cool, I suspect email encryption will over time become more
of an enterprise thing, and therefore even harder to measure.
Thanks,
Yaron
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