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Re: [Cryptography] Explaining PK to grandma
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Nov 26 22:34:30 2013
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:44:17 +1000
From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On 2013-11-27 09:44, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> +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.
Skype, as originally designed, is a good starting point. Of course the
ease of use comes from a central certificate authority, but that problem
can be, if not cured, substantially mitigated.
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