[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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