From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com (bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com +1-510-484-6204)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 94 15:42:05 PST
To: nsb@nsb.fv.com
Subject: Re: properties of FV
Message-ID: <9412192315.AA18562@anchor.ho.att.com>
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In the www-buyinfo discussion on crypto,
> From research!nsb.fv.com!nsb Sat Dec 17 09:36:40 1994
>Eric > "If and When" is Yes and Today.  Anybody who can autosign their
> 
> The risk analysis is absolutely true.  However, I have the impression
> you missed the phrase "deployed widely enough to have penetrated a
> meaningful portion of our market".  I suspect that the cypherbunks and
> www-buyinfo communities are not the best place to get a feel for the
> extent to which crypto is widely deployed.  Pick some random other list
> or newsgroup, however, and I'll be surprised if you find 1% market
> penetration for crypto.

Obviously, from reading Cypherpunks you'd get the idea that 
everybody has PGP and all but a few old fogies have MIME :-)
However, one of the reasons that few people actually are using
PGP signatures on all their messages is that there's no real need -
most of us realistically aren't trying to overthrow our governments,
except through obsolescence and ridicule, and there isn't much problem
with forging postings on the net.  On the other hand, if my credit
card were involved, I'd certainly be happy to start signing all my
fv payment confirmations, especially if there were a convenient tool for doing so that 
got distributed free....



		bILL