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Re: [Cryptography] Explaining PK to grandma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Nov 26 19:00:58 2013
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:44:59 +1300
From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: hallam@gmail.com, radix42@gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <CAMm+Lwi9MdrvTMnvY7LAtBPZgmFByVLPxHCPgWAVD++BROqjnw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nico@cryptonector.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> writes:
>How do you explain how the car works to gran? You don't because she never
>thought to ask. All she knows is that you stick liquid in one end and it
>burns to make the engine go. Gran probably thinks that it is some sort of
>steam engine in there.
>
>These explanations are tantamount to explaining to her how a carburetor works
>or the details of the differential.
+1 to all the above. I've been a bit behind on email recently so you got
there first with a good summary of the problem, but if your secure email
scheme has a step 0 of "explain to granny how secure email works" then you may
as well not bother going to step 1, whatever your step 1 is meant to be.
Secure email has to work like Skype, you install it, you click on "Call
<insert-name-of-grandchild>", and it works.
Peter.
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