[6654] in Kerberos
Re: done any survey on who uses pub key cryptography?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas J. Satterfield)
Thu Feb 15 12:31:49 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 15 Feb 1996 16:44:16 GMT
From: tjsatter@prairienet.org (Thomas J. Satterfield)
Farez Abdul-Rahman (F.AbdulRahman@cs.ucl.ac.uk) wrote:
: hi,
:
: Has anybody actually done any survey how many people actually use public
: key cryptography. I know a lot of people have public keys and copies of PGP
: or RIPEM software, but how many people actually use these and whose
: communications would actually be impossible without cryptography to ensure
: its privacy?
:
: Kerberos, PGP and RIPEM community, I'd really be interested to hear from
: you guys.
:
: Farez.
: ---------------------------------------------------------
: Alfarez Abdul-Rahman, Dept of Computer Science, University College London
: F.AbdulRahman@cs.ucl.ac.uk http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/F.AbdulRahman/
I have and know how to use PGP but nobody I communicat with does. That is
the problem: I would like to be able to use PGP on all my routine
communications but for the most part nearly everybody at the other end can
barely even turn on their computer and use email at all let alone with any
sophisticated cryptography. Crypto, PGP, etc is so far beyond the comprehension
of the "average" real-life computer user that until it is built into
software as seamlessly as the Netscape secure-site protocols I do not think
it will ever be used as extensively as we would like to see.
That's just the way it is. People who can read and comprehend this message
are for the most part a very tiny minority of computer users (IMHO)
Tom Satterfield
tjsatter@prairienet.org
