Despite GnuPG's popularity, Koch has struggled to survive financially, earning about $25,000 US per year since 2001 and thus considered abandoning the project and taking a better paying programming job.
雖然GnuPG一直很受歡迎，但科赫卻長期陷於經濟困難，自2001年開始每年的淨收入就只有大約25,000美元，因此他考慮放棄該項目並從事更好的牟利編程工作。