On Wed, 21 Dec 1994, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 1994, Dave Del Torto relayed to us:
Egad. I suppose I shouldn't feel too annoyed that out of over fifty copies of PGP (from the 2.3A days) I've distributed (at my own expense) to radio amateurs in Australia (for authentication on packet radio), with two lectures and an article in a national magazine, and exhortations to call me about any problems, precisely two other people are using it (but are not signing their messages); and these were already crypto-aware to start with - sigh...
PGP has made me more crypto aware, but at this point neither I nor most of the crypto aware people I personally know feel there is a need to either encrypt or sign messages on a regular basis. While this doesn't do great things for supporting crypto, it is simply reality. DigiCash is a different situation of course - it is needed, and as soon as possible. -Thomas