As an analyst and working practitioner who has to teach users how to use encryption, I'm incredibly frustrated by this issue. I would love to see some research.
I've also written a high-level piece on the topic here: http://www.networkcomputing.com/security/email-encryption-and-the-goldilocks-prin/240158288 Michele On 1/15/14 9:06 AM, Greg Norcie wrote: > The Symposium on Usable Security is an entire conference dedicated to > the subject. They have their proceedings all available on their website: > > http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2013/program.html > > > > - Greg > > On 1/15/14, 5:23 AM, Anders Thoresson wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> When doing research on email encryption and why it's still not >> widely used, I've read Alma Whittens "Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A >> Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0" [1] from '99. I wonder if anyone >> knows of similar but more recent usability studies on encryption >> software? >> >> Comparing the findings made by Whittens and compare them to the >> software available today, not much seems to have happened. But does >> the conclusion still holds, that a lack of mass-adoption of email >> encryption is due to problematic UX – or are there other reasons >> that today are seen as more important? >> >> [1] – >> https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec99/full_papers/whitten/whitten.ps >> >> Best regards, Anders Thoresson Freelance reporter >> and...@thoresson.net http://anders.thoresson.se >> http://www.dn.se/blogg/teknikbloggen http://twitter.com/thoresson >> >> >> -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu.
