Usability engineering requires empathy. Isn't it interesting that nerds built themselves a system, SSH, that mostly adheres to Perry's theses? We nerds have empathy for ourselves. But when it comes to a system for other people, we suddenly lose all empathy and design a system that ignores Perry's theses.
(In an alternative scenario, given the history of X.509, we can imagine that PKI's woes are due not to nerd un-empathy, but to government/military/hierarchy-lover un-empathy. Even in that scenario, nerd cooperation is necessary.) The irony is, normal people and nerds need systems with the same properties, for the same reasons. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
