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Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Hoffman)
Fri Feb 24 07:54:16 2006
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:46:36 -0800
To: Ed Gerck <edgerck@nma.com>
From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
At 4:31 PM -0800 2/23/06, Ed Gerck wrote:
>Usability should by now be recognized as the key issue for security -
Fully agree.
>namely, if users can't use it, it doesn't actually work.
We disagree on the meaning of the phrase "actually work".
>And what I heard in the story is that even savvy users such as Phil Z
>(who'd have no problem with key management) don't use it often.
Phil *does* have a problem with key management. He knows how to do
it, but his communications partners are not as good as he is.
>BTW, just to show that usability is king, could you please send me an
>encrypted email -- I even let you choose any secure method that you want.
Yes, I could. But I won't bother. :-)
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium
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