[6705] in Kerberos
Re: done any survey on who uses pub key cryptography?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Unknown)
Tue Feb 20 09:29:13 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 20 Feb 1996 13:49:20 GMT
From: abarrett@mail.ee.net (Unknown)
: Farez Abdul-Rahman <F.AbdulRahman@cs.ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
: >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?
I've never heard of a survey being done, but if you mosey over to your
local syncronized key server and read the whole freakin' thing into a
keyring, you'll load just shy of 30K keys. This takes into consideration
those keys whose revocation was reported to the servers, too. I don't
know how you define "use", but I think sending up a key to the servers
qualifies.
Read you later.
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