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Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Philipp =?iso-8859-1?q?G=FChring?=)
Fri Feb 24 09:49:43 2006
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From: Philipp =?iso-8859-1?q?G=FChring?= <pg@futureware.at>
To: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:29:02 +0100
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Hi,
> >And what I heard in the story is that even savvy users such as Phil Z
> >(who'd have no problem with key management) don't use it often.
> Phil *does* have a problem with key management. He knows how to do
> it, but his communications partners are not as good as he is.
Phil Z doesn=B4t know how to do it himself, at least with PGP.=20
He told me that he doesn=B4t sign people=B4s keys who ask for it, simply be=
cause=20
it would pollute his keyring on his computer, and he couldn=B4t work with a=
=20
keyring with thousands of people on it anymore.=20
So PGP obviously has a usability and scalability problem.
So he only signs the keys of his friends because of that.
I wonder now, why he didn=B4t tried to solve that usability/scalability pro=
blem=20
himself yet, but gave up instead.
Best regards,
Philipp G=FChring
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