[18579] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: PKI too confusing to prevent phishing, part 28
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan@geer.org)
Wed Sep 28 08:15:52 2005
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From: dan@geer.org
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:42:08 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:09:11 -0400
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| >
| >Talking about users as being able only to hold one bit continues an
| >unfortunate attitude that, if only users weren't so dumb/careless/whatever,
| >we wouldn't have all these security problems.
|
| This is an important point.
In November, 2003, the Computing Research Association,
and the NSF held a sequestered workshop in Virginia
to ascertain what "Grand Challenges" should drive
the NSF funding priorities for the ensuing ten years.
You can see more on this here[1], but one of the four
Grand Challenges was that there be enough advances
that one did not have to be an expert to be safe.
--dan
[1]
http://www.cra.org/Activities/grand.challenges/security/home.html
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