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Re: [Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Callas)
Fri Dec 13 13:50:26 2013
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From: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 10:27:18 -0800
To: ianG <iang@iang.org>
Cc: Cryptography Mailing List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>,
Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
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On Dec 13, 2013, at 7:55 AM, ianG <iang@iang.org> wrote:
> I suspect you might be better off counting messages encrypted rather than users. Anyone got an angle into a message tracking service?
The stats on my server show that about 1.5% to 2% are encrypted/signed messages. Of that, about 85% are decryption/verify events. My results are obviously going to be more than the population at-large because I'm running an encryption server, but anecdotally, almost all of those are OpenPGP or S/MIME signature verifications.
Jon
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