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> > We discovered, however, that most people do not want
> > to manage their own secrets ....StealthMonger wrote: > This may help to explain the poor uptake of encrypted > email. There is very good uptake of skype and ssh, because those impose no or very little additional cost on the end user. Secret management is almost furtively sneaked in on the back of other tasks. > It would be useful to know exactly what has been > discovered. Can you provide references? It is informal knowledge. A field has references when it is a science, or attempting to become a science, or pretending to become a science. Security is not yet even an art. Cryptography is an art that dubiously pretends to science, but the weak point of course is interaction of humans with the cryptography, in which area we have not even the pretense of art. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majord...@metzdowd.com
