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Nope. If we had won, crypto would be in widespread use today for email. As it is, enough FUD and confusion was sown to avert that outcome. Even on geek mailing lists such as this, signatures are rare.
Sorry, I beg to differ. The average folks in the world today never heard of the crypto war and certainly were not influenced by it. Just about every mail client (accept the one I happen to be using :-) ) has some form of crypto (usually S/MIME) built in. Yet it isn't being used. I have heard a lot of speculation as to why crypto isn't being used by Joe Average, ranging from its too hard, lack of understanding of key management (aka Certificates) [its too hard], and just lack of caring. See http://www.simson.net/ref/2004/chi2005_smime_submitted.pdf But the crypto wars just isn't a factor. There is still time to figure out how to get people to use crypto, all is not yet lost! -Jeff _______________________________________________________________________ Jeffrey I. Schiller Information Services and Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room E17-110A Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617.253.0161 - Voice j...@mit.edu, j...@qyv.net, jeffrey.schil...@gmail.com http://jis.qyv.name _______________________________________________________________________ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFPddgm8CBzV/QUlSsRAl2PAKCD9oErp2HhAJrpFCYMaIM2mUASLwCaAssS NNATc1a1SyOJpTlf2P4Tnqs= =26GV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list cryptography@randombit.net http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
