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Re: [Endymail] Another view of the problem and what the IETF could do

Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no> Mon, 01 September 2014 10:48 UTC

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The web of trust hasn't failed?

The number of people with email addresses has grown to perhaps a quarter of 
humanity. Meanwhile, the number of people who use PGP seems to have been 
more or less stable for the past 15 years (I'd love to see better numbers 
on that, but who might be in a position to collect that?). What's the 
threshold for success then?

Arnt

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