-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/2013 04:53 AM, Paul Bernal (LAW) wrote: > This all rings very true for me: I'm a legal academic, and barely a > geek, and in reality I barely ever use crypto. I was at the Privacy > Law Scholars Conference > in Berkeley last week when the PRISM story broke, and we had a special session > at the end of the conference to talk about what we knew - and someone asked > about 'user-friendly crypto' and there was a kind of laugh/cheer around the room. > Everyone knows we want it, no-one believes it's there.
All of this said, I have a few questions. First, why are the two mouse clicks required to run the Tor Browser Bundle considered to onerous to use by many people? Seriously. I get this a lot. They won't use it because it takes two mouse clicks. Why has nobody given GPGtools for MacOSX (https://gpgtools.org/) a spin, commented on its UI, and made suggestions to the project? Five mouseclicks and a bit of typing and a keypair is generated and uploaded to the keyserver network. It even plugs into Mail.App and adds a button to encrypt outbound mail. Or GPG4win (http://gpg4win.org/) for that matter - nine mouseclicks and you have a public keypair. It even plugs into MS Lookout (I know, I know.. the idea brings the gorge to the back of my throat as well, but people still use it). Where are the UI critiques and suggestions for improvement? All I see is "Crypto is too hard." Enigmail plugs into Thunderbird and has a keypair generation wizard. I haven't used it but it's there (http://www.enigmail.net/documentation/quickstart-ch2.php). For crying out loud, what will it take? Baking this stuff into MovieOS? True AGI doing it completely transparently for us? Developing software is hard, and it's not done in a vacuum. Developers need feedback from the users so we know what we are or are not doing correctly so we can fix it. "Crypto is too hard," helps nobody. - -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] [ZS] Developer, Project Byzantium: http://project-byzantium.org/ PGP: 0x807B17C1 / 7960 1CDC 85C9 0B63 8D9F DD89 3BD8 FF2B 807B 17C1 WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I don't want to go off on a rant, but..." --Dennis Miller -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlG4mdAACgkQO9j/K4B7F8Fm3QCeP7Gz8UBQ+Dkt5QhW4pSBRU0k p84AnRvb1B1BuAaKW97g+W2IJDfs7nFS =p2vA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
