[Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?

[Jon Callas]

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On Dec 13, 2013, at 7:55 AM, ianG <iang at iang.org> 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.

	Jon


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