Why Johnny can't encrypt: A usability evaluation of PGP 5.0

@inproceedings{citeulike:134441, abstract = {User errors cause or contribute to most computer security failures, yet user interfaces for security still tend to be clumsy, confusing, or near-nonexistent. Is this simply due to a failure to apply standard user interface design techniques to security? We argue that, on the contrary, effective security requires a different usability standard, and that it will not be achieved through the user interface design techniques appropriate to other types of consumer software. To test this hypothesis,...}, author = {Whitten, Alma and Tygar, J. D. }, booktitle = {8th USENIX Security Symposium}, citeulike-article-id = {134441}, keywords = {case, evaluation, usability}, posted-at = {2006-11-24 09:10:41}, priority = {2}, title = {Why Johnny can't encrypt: A usability evaluation of PGP 5.0}, url = {http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/whitten99why.html}, year = {1999} }

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