[Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?

[Stephan Neuhaus]

On 12/13/2013 12:29 AM, Jon Callas wrote:
> First of all, people have to actually care. There are lots of systems
> that are extremely easy to use if people actually care.
>
> For example, there's Enigmail for Thunderbird.

I'm using Enigmail for Thunderbird and I would challenge the implication 
that it is "extremely easy to use" for people who care. I recently told 
the story on this list of how I use two different private keys on one 
account and would like to use one for some recipients, and the other for 
everyone else.  Except fiddling with the preferences every fricking 
time, I found no way of doing this.

That's not "extremely easy to use".  I'm not saying that it is the fault 
of the Enigmail developers for not foreseeing such a use case (because 
it probably *is* very rare), but it's not "extremely easy to use".

Fun,

Stephan