[Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?

[Phillip Hallam-Baker]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Jon Callas <jon at callas.org> wrote:

> You should at the very least look at keyserver.pgp.com, which has very
> good numbers, because you have to re-verify your key there every six months
> or it gets deleted.
>
> As Tamzen said, you're going to miss lots of keyservers that are
> domain-specific keyservers for all the people using PGP Universal (now
> known as Symantec Ecryption Server, because when you think of email
> encryption, you think of Symantec). You'll find those because they're
> (typically) using the hostname "keys.domain.tld" and have an LDAP server. I
> know there are several million users of that around the net.
>

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?

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