Not necessarily.  It's more about policies and procedures than the actual
software.  You can't just say "We standardized on GPG.  Life is good".  
You have to consider stuff like key distribution, key sizes, are we
signing keys, who's the certificate authority, is it 3rd party,
application integration, supported clients, etc etc etc...

Even if all 400 companies used GPG, i bet there's 400 different ways to do 
it.  That's a good and bad thing about published standards.  There are no 
standards for the implementation and use of said standards.

ray

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Will Hill wrote:

> So the beauty of free software is apparent.  Each program is as dependable as 
> your distro, as easy to push as page rank algorithms and as universal as 
> openly published standards.   The thousands of tiny programs that differ from 
> those standards are something else.  

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