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Re: [Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ianG)
Sat Dec 14 02:01:42 2013
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Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:56:12 +0300
From: ianG <iang@iang.org>
To: Jon Callas <jon@callas.org>
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On 13/12/13 21:27 PM, Jon Callas 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.
Aha! So you could measure the ratio of PGP to S/MIME usage by message
from that. You could also count the number of distinct users for each
population.
As a proxy for PGP population, if you have the S/MIME population
estimate from somewhere, multiple that with the ratio, and you have an
estimate. Standard marketing calculations...
iang
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