[Cryptography] Size of the PGP userbase?

[jamesd@echeque.com (James A. Donald)]

On 2013-12-16 17:42, grarpamp wrote:
>> So if you are communicating with one of these new fangled email addresses,
>> you have to have the software that encrypts, and your message is secure -
>> because you are not using the old email protocol, though there may something
>> on your computer that pretends to use old email protocol for the benefit of
>> your client.
>
> I read most of your posts here. But is this a question? A statement?
> Please break into parts and rephrase.

It is my understanding of the proposed replacement for email.  Magic 
email addresses that in fact correspond to an identifier of a public 
key, for example the hash of a rule that identifies the public key, and 
which result in your message not in fact being passed along by email 
protocols.