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Hi August,

On 2020-01-06 19:13:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> I think almost 6 million isn't a small number. Almost 1 in every
 WvV>> 1000 earth human has one. ;)

 WvV>> On the other hand. Almost every one with a key has more than 1. (Like
 WvV>> Tommy's 18 ;))

 AA> Right, so that reduces the estimate a bit.  And if you factor in the keys
 AA> that are expired or revoked, the number may be significantly less.

Probably only half or even less...

 AA>>> Some aspects of business-2-business are ripe for pgp.

 WvV>> You don't have to convince me. ;)

 AA> I'v read about S/MIME type encryption methods that use certificates. And
 AA> these certificates are created and registered with an "authority". When I
 AA> was looking for something to use with MS Outlook for business, I only came
 AA> across solutions that required payment.

 AA> Maybe big-business environments use the above solution.

That's probably the same thing as the certificates used in ssl/tls ip trafic
(https:). And indeed those cost money if you want one from the commercial
"authority"'s and don't want to use Letsencrypt.

 AA> But PGP management is much simpler and gives total angency to the
 AA> user.

 AA> I am a little surprised pgp is not more ubiquitous as it *should* be.

 AA> What type of business is/was your involvement?

Nothing (official)... Why would you think that? ;)

But I have developed/used pgp signing solutions for distributing software to
linux embeded systems.


Bye, Wilfred.

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