I wouldn't count 55,000 out of 3 billion Internet users as "wide use". There is virtually no chance that a random person you want to communicate with is set up with PGP and connected to the web of trust.
3 billion Internet users have PGP keys? I must of missed that. At last count, I was aware of about 350,000 total, many of which are expired, clearly fake identities, or generated many times by the same user, either because they don't understand how to generate a key, or keep losing their private key.
50,000 in the strong set out of 350,000 total, is 15% of the PGP user base. 1 out of every 7 PGP keys in is in the strong set. I would call that "wide use".
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[ 5.5 ms ] story [ 16.0 ms ] threadI guess the author is not familiar with the PGP strong set, the largest connected OpenPGP Web of Trust on the Internet, with almost 55,000 keys?
50,000 in the strong set out of 350,000 total, is 15% of the PGP user base. 1 out of every 7 PGP keys in is in the strong set. I would call that "wide use".