Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Study of the Usability of Pretty Good Privacy
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Added on 2019-09-20
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This article explores the usability of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) software for email encryption and digital signatures. It discusses the difficulties encountered by users due to a flawed understanding of public-key encryption and digital signatures. The article also suggests recommendations for improving the provision of assurance of purpose of PGP public keys. The study found that security software is different from consumer software and user design principles for consumer software cannot be blindly applied to the security software. The authors recommend making the automatic calculations as to the validity and trust of the public key associations explicit to the user, so that they are saved the confusion of trying to guess the meaning of trust and validity in the context of PGP.
Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Study of the Usability of Pretty Good Privacy
Added on 2019-09-20
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