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Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 (1999)  (Make Corrections)  (38 citations)
Alma Whitten, J.D. Tygar
8th USENIX Security Symposium



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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,... (Update)

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Alma Whitten and J.D. Tygar, "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0," in Proceedings of the 8th USENIX Security Symposium, August 1999. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/whitten99why.html   More

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