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Re: New Draft... going forward

1997-10-21 10:14:30
On Tue, 21 Oct 1997, Ian Grigg wrote:


We only theoretically have the option to not require it.  The number of
people using anything other than 2.6 or thereabouts is minute compared
to the installed base of "classic" PGP.  Any clues on how many copies of
5.* have been sold?


Some quick rough numbers. On the MIT keyservers there are now about 95,000
new public keys since 5/20. Of them 85% are DSS/DH(El Gamal) keys. Before
that I beleive that there were ~20K RSA keys...

-Gene Hoffman
PGP, Inc.


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