NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use

[Philipp Gühring]

Hi,

> >And what I heard in the story is that even savvy users such as Phil Z
> >(who'd have no problem with key management) don't use it often.

> Phil *does* have a problem with key management. He knows how to do
> it, but his communications partners are not as good as he is.

Phil Z doesn´t know how to do it himself, at least with PGP. 
He told me that he doesn´t sign people´s keys who ask for it, simply because 
it would pollute his keyring on his computer, and he couldn´t work with a 
keyring with thousands of people on it anymore. 
So PGP obviously has a usability and scalability problem.
So he only signs the keys of his friends because of that.
I wonder now, why he didn´t tried to solve that usability/scalability problem 
himself yet, but gave up instead.

Best regards,
Philipp Gühring


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