[messaging] Let's run a usability study (was Useability of	public-key fingerprints)
    Peter Gutmann 
    pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
       
    Thu Feb 13 18:20:59 PST 2014
    
    
  
Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>I'd also be interested in a study about whether people even try to check
>fingerprints *at all*.
Already done, "Do Users Verify SSH Keys?" from 2011,
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/105484-Gutmann.pdf.  
tl;dr: "Abstract: No".
Peter.
    
    
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