[117341] in Cypherpunks
FW: Its the GUI, stupid
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Buff)
Tue Aug 31 20:22:22 1999
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From: Kurt Buff <kurtb@cancerfacts.com>
Cc: "'David Honig'" <honig@sprynet.com>,
"'cypherpunks@toad.com'"
<cypherpunks@toad.com>,
"'coderpunks@toad.com'" <coderpunks@toad.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 16:35:03 -0700
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Reply-To: Kurt Buff <kurtb@cancerfacts.com>
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More important to me, does anyone know where to find the program
described later in the article for story that allows storage and
retrieval of encryption keys to/from a 3Com Palm?
| -----Original Message-----
| From: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
| [mailto:owner-cypherpunks@toad.com]On Behalf Of David Honig Sent:
| Monday, August 30, 1999 10:29 To: cypherpunks@toad.com;
| coderpunks@toad.com Subject: Its the GUI, stupid
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| User interface *major* problem with crypto deployment.
|
|
| But Carnegie
| Mellon University researchers
| have found that usability
| problems are worse than
| expected.
|
| Of the 12 people who
| participated in an CMU
| experiment, eight never managed
| to figure out how PGP 5.0
| worked. Four of them accidentally
| sent out unencrypted messages
| that revealed confidential
| information.
|
| Even with the program's
| ostensibly easy-to-use graphical
| interface and even after 90
| minutes in front of a PC, "only
| one third of them were able to
| use PGP 5.0 to correctly sign and
| encrypt an email message," say
| researchers Alma Whitten and
| Doug Tygar, who presented a
| paper on the topic.
|
| excerpt from
| http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21484.html
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