JOHN GALT wrote: > StealthMonger wrote: > >> This may help to explain the poor uptake of encrypted email. It would >> be useful to know exactly what has been discovered. Can you provide >> references? > > The iconic Paper explaining this is "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" available > here: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1251435 >
Available from the Authors: http://gaudior.net/alma/johnny.pdf http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~tygar/papers/Why_Johnny_Cant_Encrypt/OReilly.pdf (For those of us not ACM members and not having Library or affliate access). There's also a power point presentation on the cognitive dissonance involved: http://www.nku.edu/~waldenj1/classes/2006/spring/csc593/presentations/Johnny.ppt And something done at Carnegie Mellon: http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/courses/ups-sp06/notes/060202LectureNotes.doc http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/courses/ups-sp06/slides/060202-user-tests2.ppt --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]