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Re: The summer of PKI love
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Fri Aug 12 14:23:50 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:54:29 -0700
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From: Stephan Neuhaus
<neuhaus@st.cs.uni-sb.de>
> So, the optimism of the article's author aside, where
> *do* we stand on PKI deployment?
PKI's deployment to identify ssl servers is near one
hundred percent. PKI's deployment to sign and secure
email, and to identify users, is near zero and seems
unlikely to change. PGP has substantially superior
penetration.
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James A. Donald
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