<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Hi PGP community,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">My name is Chris and I am currently writing my master's thesis at the TU Berlin in co-operation with the FU Berlin. My goal is to research how to remove hurdles that discourage people from using PGP to encrypt their email. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; min-height: 14px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Currently I am looking into introducing a secret sharing scheme that helps with secure distributed backups of the private key. If you don’t know what secret sharing is, no worries, that’s what I am trying to explain. Therefore I created a small on-boarding prototype for this feature that I would love your feedback on. Below the prototype you can see the link to the survey which has around 10 mostly multiple-choice questions about the topic and some demographics at the end. Of course the input is anonymized and used only within my research purpose. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">For the start I would implement the feature in the PGP supporting email client which is being developed by the Freie Universität Berlin.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">In case you are interested in what this idea develops into, there is the option to add your email to a list that I will update about my findings at the end of the project.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">To find the prototype click the following link: <a href="https://letterbox-app.org/survey/backup/" class="">https://letterbox-app.org/survey/backup/</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Best regards,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Helvetica Neue";">Christian Weißmann </div></body></html>