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Re: NPR : E-Mail Encryption Rare in Everyday Use
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Feb 24 09:34:06 2006
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Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:44:14 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: Ed Gerck <edgerck@nma.com>
Cc: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <43FE53F3.70909@nma.com>
Ed Gerck wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Usability should by now be recognized as the key issue for security -
> namely, if users can't use it, it doesn't 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.
>
> 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.
Sure I can, but if you want it to be encrypted to you, then you need to
publish a key.
Cheers,
Ben.
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