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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. 

    --digsig
         James A. Donald
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     5l+2/VgKKsZ7L2MtEJUMxtB3jqOuld2RYZgm3QcV
     4HS67bQDIU6jSwHy8CH7u3qvqnY5XGqLUbRMG5mgy


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