Why the poor uptake of encrypted email? [Was: Re: Secrets and cell phones.]

[David G. Koontz]

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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