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Re: Why the poor uptake of encrypted email? [Was: Re: Secrets and
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David G. Koontz)
Mon Dec 8 19:14:59 2008
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:43:08 +1300
From: "David G. Koontz" <david_koontz@xtra.co.nz>
To: Cryptography List <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
In-Reply-To: <493D8E03.8040008@Gmail.com>
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
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