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PGP has 50,000 users counting by the keyservers, Tor has two million daily users.

PGP has 50,000 users counting by the keyservers, Tor has two million daily users. I don't think that's reasonable that 97.5% of the people who care enough to use Tor haven't used PGP in years. (Yes, that's a back-of-the-envelope calculation.) My conclusion from that disparity is that PGP is broken by a flank attack: Its usability is so bad that the encryption goes unused.

Posted by Arnt on Mar 26, 2015, 10:51 AM

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PGP has 50,000 users counting by the keyservers, Tor has two million daily users.

ArntMar 26, 2015, 10:51 AM

PGP has 50,000 users counting by the keyservers, Tor has two million daily users. I don't think that's reasonable that 97.5% of the people who care enough to use Tor haven't used PGP in years. (Yes, that's a back-of-the-envelope calculation.) My conclusion from that disparity is that PGP is broken by a flank attack: Its usability is so bad that the encryption goes unused.

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