Almost no one encrypts their emails because it is too much of a hassle

Via Chris Stokel-Walker

Only 0.06% of emails are encrypted, according to an analysis of 81 million messages sent over 27 years.

Christian Stransky at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, and his colleagues analyzed emails sent by 37,000 students and university staff between January 1994 and July 2021. Only 5.46% of users were used to use encryption tools like S/MIME or PGP – the latter has been around for 30 years. In all, …