http://www.propublica.org/article/the-worlds-email-encryption-software-relies-on-one-guy-who-is-going-broke

I met Werner Koch at FSCONS 2011, I didn't actually know who he was until the next day when he gave a talk :-)

Seems they are in dire need of donation, I just made a donation to the GnuPG project, I think everyone should: https://gnupg.org/donate/index.html