[Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?

[Chris Kuethe]

I just asked a public keyserver: Total number of keys: 3479488

Of course that includes expired, revoked, lost, spoofs. No attempt has been
made to deduplicate identities or count individual UIDs...


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:51 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com>wrote:

> I am trying to get an estimate of the size of the PGP userbase for a
> presentation. Does anyone have figures?
>
> I have some figures for S/MIME and I am trying to make sense of them. When
> I started looking at end to end email I was thinking that the problem was
> we never hit critical mass. I am now thinking that we did hit critical mass
> and the product is not wanted beyond a niche.
>
> It does not make much difference since it is clear either way that we are
> not going to get ubiquitous deployment by just waiting around for secure
> email to go viral. The figures suggest that it already did as much as that
> as it was going to.
>
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