Over the last year Marcus and me discussed ideas on how to make
encryption easier for non-crypto geeks.
We prepared a short paper...
Interesting. However, the problem of widening email encryption
practice is not technical, it is motivational.
Broadly speaking, there are those that have
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:39, makro...@gmail.com said:
Interesting. However, the problem of widening email encryption
practice is not technical, it is motivational.
Right and that is why it encryption must be the default.
On the other hand, I keep wondering: why are we (and we obviously
are,
On 10/20/2011 1:39 AM, M.R. wrote:
Interesting. However, the problem of widening email encryption
practice is not technical, it is motivational.
Absolutely agreed. Shirley Gaw, Ed Felten and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
had a wonderful paper a few years ago, Secrecy, Flagging, and Paranoia:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 05:39:28AM +, M.R. wrote:
On the other hand, I keep wondering: why are we (and we obviously
are, witness this paper and the initiative behind it) so motivated
to spread the gospel of e-mail encryption among those that completely
lack the motivation for it?
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BTW I have nothing to hide but like my privacy anyway. Privacy is
essential for maintaining personal boundaries, as well as security.
(That said, the vast majority of my use of crypto in email is to
establish identity, not to protect privacy. I *want* to be positively
identifiable in most
I suspect that, for many, too hard to do is not as significant a
factor as too hard to believe in. Over here, doctors' offices have
at last been dragged, kicking and screaming, into the mid 20th century
and will at least use FAX to transmit prescriptions to the pharmacy,
but mention e-mail and
On 20/10/11 12:30, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
...Shirley Gaw, Ed Felten and Patricia Fernandez-Kelly
had a wonderful paper a few years ago, Secrecy, Flagging, and Paranoia:
Adoption Criteria in Encrypted Email...
Thanks for the link, interesting reading. The quote from the paper that
follows
On 10/20/11 11:34 AM, M.R. wrote:
I propose this way of thinking is counterproductive. It will not
succeed in any meaningful way, because encryption by default
is a completely unrealistic goal...
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the
impossible. -- Miguel de Unamuno
He
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15:34:29 + -
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