gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org wrote on 02/01/2012 10:51:46 AM: > ----- Message from "Robert J. Hansen" <r...@sixdemonbag.org> on Wed, > 01 Feb 2012 11:19:08 -0500 ----- > > To: > > gnupg-users@gnupg.org > > Subject: > > Re: PGP/MIME use > > On 2/1/12 10:47 AM, Hauke Laging wrote: > > Of course not. I just don't believe that there are many examples of > > this type out there. To me a serious user is one who actively signs, > > encrypts, and/or verifies data and knows what he is doing. He has > > created a key and verified at least one. Everything else seems like > > special use to me. > > Then yes, you are selecting for email users. There are quite a lot of > people who use GnuPG primarily for themselves -- for instance, a system > administrator who signs each backup, a lawyer who encrypts files when in > transit on a flash drive, etc. > > The overwhelming majority of the users you see are using email, yes, but > only because email is the method by which you come to see them. Users > who never announce their usage (the system administrator, the lawyer, > etc.) are completely invisible to you. >
I would be one who fits in the other case. I've never signed an e-mail--no one at our organization does. (Not that I wouldn't like to, but nearly all those with whom I communicate wouldn't have any use for nor comprehension of the signature.) However, I've written scripts to routinely sign files for transmission to our bank. I would definitely count us as serious users. We would be very upset if the bank started rejecting transmissions due to the lack of a valid signature. Seeing that our bank is a very large one, I'm sure there are plenty of others who also sign their business transmissions using GPG. Michael
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