On 03/24/16 12:24, Patrick Brunschwig wrote: > On 23.03.16 09:56, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I propose replacing our current Enigmail bar in the Message View with an >> "Enigmal Privacy Readout". Forget messages about "UNTRUSTED Good >> Signature from..." etc. We reduce it down to three icons, representing >> the status of the message privacy, the message accountability, and the >> message integrity. > > Sorry for answering so slowly. I like the idea very much, but I think > we could even go a step further, at least for non-advanced users: a > simple symbol with just 3 colors: > > * green - nothing to worry about, the mail was transmitted safely (i.e. > encrypted and signed, verification was OK). > * yellow - encrypted, but not verified > * red - not encrypted > > Clicking on the icon would give you more details, similarly to what you > explained.
I don't think that's actually a good model. It simplifies the model so much that it distorts it, and adds lots of false-positive red signals (which will be interpreted by most people as "OMG SOMETHING IS WRONG" for messages which have nothing wrong with them except that they were sent unencrypted. This falls perfectly into the too-many-alarms model that Robert cited a couple of days ago. For most users, it will cry "Wolf!" on nearly every message they receive. Much better that the message show as privacy greyed (not private), integrity greyed (not verified), without showing a red-alert on every cleartext message. "Red alert" is the wrong model UNLESS it is an error or threat for a particular user to EVER receive an unsigned cleartext message, and that is a tiny, tiny fraction of the Enigmail userbase. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications [email protected] [email protected] Landline: 603.293.8485
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